torvid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Obsolete

"[…] but yesterday his breath / Aw’d Rome, and his least torved frown was death."
"That wary labourers, in passing by, / May not suspect his master's idle life, / Lest, urg’d by smiling truth or torvid jealousy, / They carry information to the little Nimrod of the borough town"
"With torvid brow Saturnia gazed upon / Ixion, and the toiling Sisyphon, / And asked why he alone selected was / To bear such punishment […]"

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tergʷ-der. Latin torvus Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin torvidusbor. English torvid Borrowed from Latin torvidus.

more torvid (comparative) most torvid (superlative)

Questions

What does torvid mean?

Fierce, stern.

Where does torvid come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tergʷ-der. Latin torvus Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin torvidusbor. English torvid Borrowed from Latin torvidus.

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