Noun: vivid
| Singular | vivid |
| Plural | vivids |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like vivid
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
5. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
6. Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
7. Proto-Italic *gʷīwō
8. Latin vīvō
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
10. Proto-Italic *-iðos
11. Latin -idus
12. Latin vīviduslbor.
13. English vivid
14. Learned borrowing from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”).
15. The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from Bic's Vivid Marker brand. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
βίος'.