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Latin
Etymology
Stative from Proto-Italic *wlikʷēō, from Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷ-éh₁-ye-ti, from *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run, moisten”); compare Irish fliuch (“wet”), Tocharian A lyīktsi (“to wash”).[1]
See also intransitive līquor and transitive liquō.
Pronunciation
Verb
liqueō (present infinitive liquēre, perfect active licuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to be liquid, fluid
- Synonyms: candeō, ēniteō, splendeō, niteō, fulgeō, resplendeō
c. 65 CE,
Seneca the Younger,
Naturales quaestiones 6.5.1:
- Causam qua terra concutitur alii in aqua esse, alii in ignibus, alii in ipsa terra, alii in spiritu putauerunt, alii in pluribus, alii in omnibus his; quidam liquere ipsis aliquam ex istis causam esse dixerunt, sed non liquere quae esset.
- to be clear, transparent, limpid
- (figuratively) to be clear, evident, apparent
- Synonyms: exstō, ēmineō, excellō, ēniteō
Conjugation
- The third principal part may be licuī or liquī.
Derived terms
References
- “liqueo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “liqueo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- liqueo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 345