livid的词源

英文词源

livid: livid: see sloe
livid (adj.): early 15c., "of a bluish-leaden color," from Middle French livide and directly from Latin lividus "of a bluish color, black and blue," figuratively "envious, spiteful, malicious," from livere "be bluish," earlier *slivere, from PIE *sliwo-, suffixed form of root *(s)leie- "bluish" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic and Russian sliva "plum;" Lithuanian slywas "plum;" Old Irish li, Welsh lliw "color, splendor," Old English sla "sloe"). The sense of "furiously angry" (1912) is from the notion of being livid with rage.

来自拉丁语lividus,蓝色的，青灰色的，来自PIE*sleie,蓝色，词源同sloe,lavender.引申词义脸色发青，暴怒的。

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