pellucid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Italic *per
Latin per
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti
Proto-Italic *loukeō
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Italic *loukēō
Latin lūceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin lūcidus
Latin pellūciduslbor.
English pellucid
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin pellūcidus, perlucidus (“transparent, pellucid; very bright; very understandable”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘through; throughout; completely, thoroughly’) + lūcidus (“clear; full of light, bright, shining; (figuratively) easily understood, clear, lucid”) (from lūceō (“to shine; to become visible, show through; (figuratively) to be apparent, conspicuous, or evident”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Late Latin pellucidum (“transparent substance”)
* Middle French pellucide (modern French pellucide (“pellucid”))
Inflected forms:
form: more pellucid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pellucid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
pos: adj
tags: literary
examples: Blood to the naked Eye appears all red; but by a good Microſcope, vvherein its leſſer parts appear, ſhevvs only ſome fevv Globules of Red, ſvvimming in a pellucid Liquor; and hovv theſe Globules vvould appear, if Glaſſes could be found, that yet could magnifie them 1000, or 10000 times more, is uncertain.
This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as VVater or Cryſtal of the Rock, and vvithout Colour; enduring a red Heat vvithout loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining vvithout Fuſion.
As a stream, clear and bright, becomes foul with weeds, and stagnates by its distant meanderings from its pure and pellucid source,—so the active imagination, the capacious intellect of Douglas, those high and valuable endowments, had, by an undue use of them, been perverted.
The sea was shining like a sheet of glass, […] and the bright sea-weeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.
You cannot think what figs / My teeth have met in, / What melons icy-cold / Piled on a dish of gold / Too huge for me to hold, / What peaches with a velvet nap, / Pellucid grapes without one seed: […]
The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.
Most of the pool was quite shallow, but under the cliff where the beach was hollowed out it was four or five feet deep. It was to this part that a swimmer would naturally go, for it formed a beautiful pellucid green pool as clear as crystal.
gloss: Easily understood; clear.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
literary
examples: Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir.
[Y]ou never receive me apart from the grammar that establishes my availability to you. If I treat that grammar as pellucid, then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here.
gloss: Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
literary
examples: Opera star [Giorgio] Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and [Sharon] Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano.
gloss: Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
literary
gloss: Easily recognized or seen through; apparent, obvious.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
figuratively
literary
Related words: elucidate
lucid
pellucidity
zona pellucida
Derived words: pellucidly
pellucidness
semipellucid
subpellucid
unpellucid
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: прозрачен
roman: prozračen
lang: Dutch
word: doorschijnend
lang: Finnish
word: läpikuultava
lang: German
word: durchsichtig
lang: German
word: durchscheinend
lang: Latin
word: pellūcidus
lang: Polish
word: przezroczysty
lang: Spanish
word: transparente
lang: Spanish
word: diáfano
lang: Spanish
word: cristalino
lang: Bulgarian
word: разбираем
roman: razbiraem
lang: Finnish
word: helppotajuinen
lang: Spanish
word: diáfano