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Latin
Etymology
From valeō (“I am strong, I am healthy, I am worth”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
validus (feminine valida, neuter validum, comparative validior, superlative validissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- strong
- Synonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, strēnuus, ingēns, firmus, compos
- Antonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, fractus, tenuis, obnoxius, inops
- healthy, well
- Synonyms: saluber, salvus, sanus, integer, intactus, sospes, incolumis, sollus
- Antonyms: aeger, miser, fessus, languidus, īnfirmus
- worthy
- valid
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “validus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “validus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- validus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- validus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.