pellucid

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
3. Proto-Italic*per
4. Latinper
5. Proto-Indo-European*lewk-
6. Proto-Indo-European*lowkéyeti
7. Proto-Italic*loukeō
8. Proto-Indo-European*lewk-
9. Proto-Indo-European*lukéh₁yeti
10. Proto-Italic*l(o)ukēō?
11. Latinlūceō
12. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
13. Latinlūcidus
14. Latinpellūcidu
15. English todaypellucid

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin pellūcidus, perlucidus (“transparent, pellucid; very bright; very understandable”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘through; throughout; completely, thoroughly’) + lūcidus (“clear; full of light, bright, shining; (figuratively) easily understood, clear, lucid”) (from lūceō (“to shine; to become visible, show through; (figuratively) to be apparent, conspicuous, or evident”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)). The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Late Latin pellucidum (“transparent substance”) * Middle French pellucide (modern French pellucide (“pellucid”))

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