translucid

English

Etymology

From Latin translucidus, from trans (“across, through”) + lucidus (“lucid”). Compare French translucide. See translucent.

Adjective

translucid (comparative more translucid, superlative most translucid)

1. Translucent.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they are translucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red

   • 1844, Emerson, The Poet:

     This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

   • 2013, Alice Fabre, Metal Language:

     Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.

Further reading

• “translucid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Curtisland

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French translucide, from Latin translucidus.

Adjective

translucid m or n (feminine singular translucidă, masculine plural translucizi, feminine and neuter plural translucide)

1. translucent

Declension

Declension of translucid

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	translucid		translucidă	translucizi	translucide
	definite	translucidul		translucida	translucizii	translucidele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	translucid		translucide	translucizi	translucide
	definite	translucidului		translucidei	translucizilor	translucidelor

Related terms

• transluciditate

Spanish

Verb

translucid

1. second-person plural imperative of translucir