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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *(s)līwēō, *(s)leiwēō, or *(s)loiwēō,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lih₃-wó-, suffixed form of *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). Also see Old English slāh (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slywas (“plum”), Old Church Slavonic and Russian слива (sliva, “plum”). Alternatively, not being attested prior to Cicero, phonologically may only otherwise derive from līvidus, in which case the latter having an equivalent etymology.
Pronunciation
Verb
līveō (present infinitive līvēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- to be of a bluish color; to be livid
- (figuratively) to be envious, envy
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līvidus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 347
Further reading
- “liveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “liveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- liveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.