liquide

See also: liquidé

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.kid/

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• Rhymes: -id

Adjective

liquide (plural liquides)

1. liquid (existing in the physical state of a liquid)
2. liquid (said of money)

Noun

liquide m (plural liquides)

1. liquid (substance not of solid or gas state)
2. cash
   • 1997, “Elle donne son corps avant son nom”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:

     En m'habillant, je palpais mes poches vides / Plus de chèques, plus de cartes, plus de liquide

     Getting dressed, I patted my empty pockets / No more checks, no more cards, no more cash

Derived terms

• azote liquide
• correcteur liquide
• cristal liquide
• liquide amniotique
• liquide cérébro-spinal
• liquide de gaz naturel
• liquide vaisselle

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: likid
• → Turkish: likit

Noun

liquide f (plural liquides)

1. (phonology) liquid (class of consonant sounds)

Verb

liquide

1. inflection of liquider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “liquide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Interlingua

Adjective

liquide (comparative plus liquide, superlative le plus liquide)

1. liquid

Related terms

• liquido

Italian

Adjective

liquide f pl

1. feminine plural of liquido

Anagrams

• deliqui

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈlɪ.kʷɪ.dɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.kʷi.de]

Adjective

liquide

1. vocative masculine singular of liquidus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈlɪ.kʷɪ.deː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.kʷi.de]

Adverb

liquidē (comparative liquidius, superlative liquidissimē)

1. in a liquidlike manner; liquidly

References

• “liquide”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “liquide”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• liquyd, liquid, lequide, lyquyd, lyquyde, liquyde, liqwyde, liqued, lyquet

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlikwid(ə)/

Adjective

liquide

1. liquid (not solid or gaseous)
2. fluid, flowing, unconstrained

Descendants

• English: liquid

References

• “liquid(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin liquidus.

Adjective

liquide m (oblique and nominative feminine singular liquide)

1. liquid (existing in the physical state of a liquid)

Descendants

• French: liquide
• → Middle English: liquide
  • English: liquid

Portuguese

Verb

liquide

1. inflection of liquidar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

liquide

1. inflection of liquidar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative