Lucid
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lucid¹
- /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/
Rhymes with -uːsɪd
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti
Proto-Italic *loukeō
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *lukéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *l(o)ukēō?
Latin lūceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin lūcidus
English lucid
Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
adjective lucider · more lucid · lucidest · most lucid
- Clear; easily understood. [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
- Mentally rational; sane.
- Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent. The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.
Similar: perspicuous, straightforward, radiant, pellucid, see-through, transparent, translucent
noun lucids
- A lucid dream. The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]
Lucid²
Where it comes from
Perhaps a variant of Lucey.
proper noun Lucids
- A surname from Irish.
