Noun: virid
| Singular | virid |
| Plural | virids |
Sample Sentences
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In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin 'like our other chaplains', […] [1951, Doris Mary Stenton, “Annotations”, in English Society in the Early Middle Ages ‹1066–1307›, 2nd edition, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1959, →OCLC, footnote 29, page 276:]
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As to the regulation of the fire, if it is too hot the colour of the flowers will be yellow; if it is too cold the colour of the flowers will be virid or purple[…]. [1980, Joseph Needham, edited by Ho Ping-Yu, Science and Civilisation in China, volume 5, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:]
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To inspect (a patient's) color includes (an examination) of the skin of (his/her) face and of the entire body. (Among the colors) the five types of virid, red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished; […] [1994, Paul U[lrich] Unschuld, “Diagnosis”, in Learn to Read Chinese: An Introduction to the Language and Concepts of Current Zhongyi Literature, volume 1 (Texts, Transcription, Vocabulary, Translations), Brookline, Mass.: Paradigm Publications, →ISBN, page 249:]
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I am drawn to the eccentric color words, which need, and often defy, definition. […] virid, a dangerously alive green; […] [2013, Coleman Barks, “The VOICE inside WATER”, in Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009-2011, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, footnote 5, page 82:]
Nouns inflected like virid
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English viride (“verdigris”, adjective, noun) [and other forms] + English -id (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives and nouns). Viride is borrowed from Latin viridis (“green; (figuratively) fresh; lively; young, youthful”), from vireō (“to be green or verdant; to sprout new green growth; to flourish; to be lively or vigorous”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to procreate; to produce; to increase; to raise”). Doublet of verdant and vert. See: Middle English Nouns '
viride', Latin Nouns '
viridis'.