pallidus
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpal.lɪ.dʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpal.li.dus]
Adjective
pallidus (feminine pallida, neuter pallidum, comparative pallidior); first/second-declension adjective
- pale, pallid, wan
- that makes or causes a pale condition
- (by extension) musty, moldy, hoary
- (figuratively) frightened, pale with fright
- greenish
- in love
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | pallidus | pallida | pallidum | pallidī | pallidae | pallida | |
| genitive | pallidī | pallidae | pallidī | pallidōrum | pallidārum | pallidōrum | |
| dative | pallidō | pallidae | pallidō | pallidīs | |||
| accusative | pallidum | pallidam | pallidum | pallidōs | pallidās | pallida | |
| ablative | pallidō | pallidā | pallidō | pallidīs | |||
| vocative | pallide | pallida | pallidum | pallidī | pallidae | pallida | |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Translingual: Coniocybe pallida
- → Asturian: pálidu
- → Catalan: pàl·lid, pàl·lidum
- Corsican: pallidu, palidu
- → English: pallid, pallidum
- Old French: pale
- Friulian: palit
- → Galician: pálido
- Italian: pallido
- → Ladino: pálido, פאלידו
- Norman: pale
- Occitan: palle
- → Piedmontese: pàlid
- → Portuguese: pálido
- → Romanian: palid
- Sardinian: pallidu
- → Spanish: pálido
See also
| albus, candidus, cānus, marmoreus (poetic), eburneus (poetic), niveus (poetic), argenteus (poetic), lacteus (poetic) | rāvus, pullus, mūrīnus (of livestock) | niger, āter, furvus, fuscus ("swarthy"), piceus (poetic) |
| ruber, russus, rūbidus (dark), flammeus (poetic); rutilus, pūniceus, spādīx (poetic), sanguineus (poetic) | rūfus, rutilus, rōbus (of oxen), croceus (poetic), aureus (poetic); fulvus (poetic), niger (of eyes), badius (of horses) | lūteus, flāvus ("blond"), lūridus, gilvus (of horses), helvus (of cattle); cēreus (poetic) |
| viridis, flāvus (poetic) | viridis, herbeus (of eyes), fulvus (poetic) | viridis, glaucus (poetic), caeruleus (poetic, only dark) |
| glaucus (poetic), caeruleus, caesius (of eyes) | caeruleus, līvidus, ferrūgineus (poetic), glaucus (poetic) | |
| violāceus | purpureus (underlying shade) | roseus |
References
- “pallidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pallidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pallidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “pallidus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 455