callid

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adjective

cunning or shrewd; crafty.

OriginLatin callidus ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- →
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Meanings

adjectivecallid (comparative more callid, superlative most callid)

comparative more callid · superlative most callid

  1. archaiccunning or shrewd; crafty.

Origin

  1. Latincallum
  2. Latincalleō
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  4. Latincallidus
  5. Englishcallid

From Latin callidus, from callere (“to be thick-skinned, to be hardened”), from callum, callus (“callous skin, callosity, callousness”).

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