Etymology

languid

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Today it means: Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless. Full definition →

Latin languidus ← Middle French languide ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
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languid · adjective1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)leg-
  2. Latinlangueō
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  4. Latinlanguidus
  5. Middle Frenchlanguide
  6. Latinlanguidus
  7. English todaylanguid

Borrowed from Middle French languide (“fatigued, weak; apathetic, indifferent”) (modern French languide), or from its etymon Latin languidus (“faint, weak; dull; slow, sluggish; ill, sick, unwell; (figuratively) inactive, inert, listless”), from langueō (“to be faint or weak; (figuratively) to be idle, inactive, or listless”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh₁g- (“to weaken”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives). See also the related languish. Cognates * Italian languido (“languid; languishing”) * Portuguese lânguido (“languid; listless”) * Spanish lánguido (“languid, weak”)

languid · noun2

A variant of languet.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*(s)leg- all →

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