liquide

See also: liquidé

French

Etymology

From Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.kid/

• liquide

  (file)

• Rhymes: -id

Adjective

liquide (plural liquides)

1. liquid (existing in the physical state of a liquid)
2. liquid (said of money)

Noun

liquide m (plural liquides)

1. liquid (substance not of solid or gas state)
2. cash
   • 1997, “Elle donne son corps avant son nom”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:

     En m'habillant, je palpais mes poches vides / Plus de chèques, plus de cartes, plus de liquide

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Derived terms

• azote liquide
• correcteur liquide
• cristal liquide
• liquide amniotique
• liquide cérébro-spinal
• liquide de gaz naturel
• liquide vaisselle

Descendants

• Turkish: likit

Noun

liquide f (plural liquides)

1. (phonology) liquid (class of consonant sounds)

Verb

liquide

1. inflection of liquider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “liquide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Adjective

liquide (comparative plus liquide, superlative le plus liquide)

1. liquid

Related terms

• liquido

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Italian

Adjective

liquide

1. feminine plural of liquido

Anagrams

• deliqui

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Latin

Adjective

liquide

1. vocative masculine singular of liquidus

References

• “liquide”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• liquide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• liquyd, liquid, lequide, lyquyd, lyquyde, liquyde, liqwyde, liqued, lyquet

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlikwid(ə)/

Adjective

liquide

1. liquid (not solid or gaseous)
2. fluid, flowing, unconstrained

Descendants

• English: liquid

References

• “liquid(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin liquidus.

Adjective

liquide m (oblique and nominative feminine singular liquide)

1. liquid (existing in the physical state of a liquid)

Descendants

• French: liquide
• → Middle English: liquide
  • English: liquid

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Portuguese

Verb

liquide

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of liquidar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of liquidar
3. first-person singular imperative of liquidar
4. third-person singular imperative of liquidar

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Spanish

Verb

liquide

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of liquidar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of liquidar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of liquidar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of liquidar.