The story
- Latin · derived fromliquiditas
- English todayliquidity
From liquid + -ity, from Latin liquiditas. In their financial and economic senses, this and various associated terms all involve portraying assets figuratively as if they were liquids and solids, dissolving the solids with solvents, freezing and thawing, and so on.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.