The story
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷih₃wós
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷíh₃weti
- Proto-Italic*gʷīwō
- Latinvīvō
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Latinvīvidu
- English todayvivid
Learned borrowing from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”). The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from Bic's Vivid Marker brand.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.