lucid的词源

英文词源

lucid: lucid: see light
lucid (adj.): 1590s, "bright, shining," from Latin lucidus "light, bright, clear," figuratively "perspicuous, lucid, clear," from lucere "to shine," from lux (genitive lucis) "light," from PIE root *leuk- "to shine, be bright" (see light (n.)). Sense of "easy to understand" first recorded 1786. Lucid interval "period of calm or temporary sanity" (1580s) is from Medieval Latin lucida intervalla (plural), which was common in medieval English legal documents (non est compos mentis, sed gaudet lucidis intervallis). Related: Lucidly; lucidness (1640s).

来自拉丁语lucere,发光，照耀，词源同light.引申词义明亮的，清楚的。

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词根词缀： -luc-光,照 + -id形容词词尾