translucid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they are translucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red"
- "This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others."
- "Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti Proto-Italic *loukeō Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *lukéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *l(o)ukēō? Latin lūceō Latin trānslūceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin trānslūcidusder. English translucid From Latin translucidus, from trans (“across, through”) + lucidus (“lucid”). Compare French translucide. See translucent.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: translucidus
Inflected Forms
more translucid (comparative)
most translucid (superlative)