Adjective: liquid
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more liquid |
| Superlative | most liquid |
Sample Sentences
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liquid nitrogen
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a liquid melody
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/l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.
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the liquid air
Adjectives inflected like liquid
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
6. Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷ-éh₁-ye-ti
7. Proto-Italic *(w)likʷēō
8. Latin liqueō
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
10. Proto-Italic *-iðos
11. Latin -idus
12. Latin liquidusbor.
13. Old French liquidebor.
14. Middle English liquide
15. English liquid
16. From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”). See: Latin Adjectives '
liquidus'.