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From Middle Englishviride(“verdigris”, adjective, noun) + English-id(suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives and nouns). Viride is borrowed from Latinviridis(“green; (figuratively) fresh; lively; young, youthful”), from vireō(“to be green or verdant; to sprout new green growth; to flourish; to be lively or vigorous”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*weys-(“to procreate; to produce; to increase; to raise”). Doublet of verdant and vert.
Her tombe vvas not of viride Spartane greet, / Nor yet by cunning hand of Scopas vvrought, / But built of poliſht ſtone, and thereon laid / The liuely ſhape and purtrait of the maid.
His protuberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.
1985, Paul U[lrich] Unschuld, “[Appendix: Primary Texts in Translation] Chu-ping yüan hou lun”, in Medicine in China: A History of Ideas (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →ISBN, section 3.1 (Symptomatology of [the Illness] “Hit-by-Wind”), page 297:
When the liver has been struck by wind, the victim desires only to squat down and is unable even to lower his head. If the skin around the eyes and on the forehead has taken on a slightly virid hue, the lips have turned virid, and the face yellow, treatment is still possible. […] If, however, the color is a deeply virid or even black and if the face is sometimes yellow and sometimes white, the liver has already suffered irreparable harm.
1951, Doris Mary Stenton, “Annotations”, in English Society in the Early Middle Ages ‹1066–1307›, 2nd edition, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1959, →OCLC, footnote 29, page 276:
In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin 'like our other chaplains', […]
As to the regulation of the fire, if it is too hot the colour of the flowers will be yellow; if it is too cold the colour of the flowers will be virid or purple[…].
1994, Paul U[lrich] Unschuld, “Diagnosis”, in Learn to Read Chinese: An Introduction to the Language and Concepts of Current Zhongyi Literature, volume 1 (Texts, Transcription, Vocabulary, Translations), Brookline, Mass.: Paradigm Publications, →ISBN, page 249:
To inspect (a patient's) color includes (an examination) of the skin of (his/her) face and of the entire body. (Among the colors) the five types of virid, red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished; […]