The corpus record — Latin

limpidus

clear, transparent

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Where it lives

Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. limpidus — de Vaan

limpidus 'clear, transparent' [adj\ o/a] (Cat+) Derivatives: limpor [m.] 'a clear liquid' (LuciL). Since limpor is attested earlier than limpidus, the latter may well have been derived from the former by a productive pattern» According to Solta 1967, who follows an earlier idea by Emout, limpidus may be a dialectal (Sabellic) form in Latin, derived from a verb *limp-e- 'to be liquid' < *li-n-l?-e- (which Solta … — [de Vaan, s.v. limpidus, p. 356]

2. limpĭdus — Lewis & Short

limpĭdus, a, um, adj.Gr. la/mpw; cf. lepor, O-lymp-us,

I clear, bright, pellucid, transparent, limpid (poet and in post-Aug. prose): lacus, Cat. 4, 24: limpidior aqua fiet, Vitr. 8, 7: vinum limpidissimum, Col. 12, 28, 3: limpidae chrysolithi, Plin. 37, 9, 42, § 126: alumen, id. 35, 15, 52, § 184.—

II Transf., pure, clean: panis, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 1, 2: linimentum, id. ib. 1, 1, 34: lana, id. Acut. 2, 18, 103.—Hence, lim-pĭdē, adv., clearly, Cael. Aur. Tard. 4, 3, 30.—

II Trop.: perspicere, Cael. Aur. Tard. 4, 1, 6.

In the wild

limpidus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.2.p4
limpidior Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.6.15.p1
limpida Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.4.2
limpidum Catullus, Carmina lyrics.4.24
limpidae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.2.p5
limpidae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.9.p4

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. limpidus (scan p. 356; entry #918). Root candidates: *ulinkw-, *loimo-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. limpidus (scan p. 383; entry #6062).

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