limpidus

Of unclear origin. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”) and so cognate with Old Norse leiptr (“lightning”), Lithuanian liepsnà (“flame”), Ancient Greek λάμπω (lámpō, “to shine”), Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Latvian lāpa (“torch”).[1] Another theory links the word to limpor (“clear liquid”) and/or lympha (“clear river water”). Finally, an alternative theory derives the word, perhaps via a dialectal Sabellic form, from an unattested *limpē (“to be liquid”), from Proto-Italic *linkʷē, itself related to *linkʷō (“to leave”).[2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlim.pi.dus/, [ˈlʲɪmpɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlim.pi.dus/, [ˈlimpid̪us]

limpidus (feminine limpida, neuter limpidum, superlative limpidissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. clear, bright, transparent, limpid
2. (Late Latin) clean

First/second-declension adjective.

• limpidō

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: limpid, limpidu, limpidi, limpide, limbid, limbit
  • Romanian: limpede
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: limpidu, limpiu
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: limpiu
  • Italian: lémporo (western Tuscany)
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: limpi
  • Istriot: leînpio
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Gascon: limpe
  • Occitan: linde
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: llimpiu
  • Galician: limpo
  • Portuguese: limpo
  • Spanish: limpio
• Borrowings:
  • → French: limpide
    • → English: limpid
  • → Italian: limpido
  • → Portuguese: límpido
  • → Romanian: limpid
  • → Spanish: límpido

• Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈlɪmpid-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

• “limpidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limpidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• limpidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.