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Rhymes with -ɪvɪd

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Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti

Proto-Italic *gʷīwō

Latin vīvō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin vīviduslbor.

English vivid

Learned borrowing from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”).

The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from Bic's Vivid Marker brand.

Clear, detailed, or powerful.
Bright, intense, or colourful. Whenever the locomotive was working hard there was unmistakable evidence of its higher power than its predecessors in the brilliant and explosive arcing between conductor shoes and the third rail; this was particularly vivid in Quarry Tunnel in the down direction, where the display equalled anything
Full of life; strikingly alive. The vivid, untrammeled life appealed to him, and for a time he had found delight in it; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.