calid

See also: càlid

English

Etymology

From Latin calidus (“hot”), from caleō (“I am warm or hot; glow”) +‎ -idus, from Proto-Italic *kalēō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-. Cognate with Italian calido (“hot”), French chaud (“warm, hot”), Portuguese cálido (“warm”), and Spanish cálido (“warm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.lɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

Adjective

calid (comparative more calid, superlative most calid)

1. (literary, rare) Warm, hot.
   • 1874, Roswell Rice, “Descant on Time and Immortality”, in An Oration on Messiah's Kingdom and Descant on Time and Immortality: With a Variety of Poetry on Moral and Religious Subjects, Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, page 451:

     As the flaming / Pit of damnation deep expands its jaws / Of liquid fire! throwing its curly waves / Of calid flames, and smoke of sulph'rous fumes, / O'er the deep gulf of woe! I hear the lost / Spirit shriek, but shriek in vain!

   • 1919, Carlos A. Tornquist, The Economic Development of the Argentine Republic in the Last Fifty Years, Buenos Aires: Ernesto Tornquist Co., Limited, page XVII:

     Few States possess a territorial patrimony like that of Argentina, with all the climatic and all the physical conditions required to meet the necessities of a civilized people. Within its frontiers every climate is met with, from the most calid to the coldest.

   • 1982 September 12, “Archipelago Consists Of Over 1,600 Islands”, in The Japan Times, number 30054, Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

     The great abundance of limestone, and the conditions of a wet and calid weather, have determined a wide distribution of carsic manifestations (caves, rounded-summit hills, hills, lapies, etc.)

   • 1993, Joe Donnelly, Still Life, London […]: Century, →ISBN, page 419:

     He walked through to Caitlin's bedroom. As soon as he opened the door, he smelled her light perfume and the calid closeness of a room where a woman had slept the night.

   • 2001, Jacqueline Heath Hume, The House of Nevisanus, Seattle, W.A.: Hara Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 118:

     A calid sun, just risen, cast a fiery glow over the House of Nevisanus.

   • 2008, Tom Mathews, “Not with a Bang”, in Keats and Chapman, Dublin: New Island Books, →ISBN, page 103:

     Eliot, happening by to find out what progress they were making, enquired with characteristic politeness whether their conversation was of a private nature or whether, if it were general, he might be accorded the pleasure of joining in. 'Certainly you may,' said Keats civilly, 'we're just shooting the bries.' Eliot whimpered dimly in the calid afternoon.

Related terms

• calidarium
• calidity

 

References

• “calid”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “calid”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “calid, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• -cidal, Lacid, alcid, cladi