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calid

/ˈkælɪd/

calid adjective: warm, hot.

Adjective

calid (comparative more calid, superlative most calid)

  1. (literary, rare) Warm, hot.
    • 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!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....
    • 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.1919, Carlos A. Tornquist, The Economic Development of the Argentine Republic in the Last Fifty Years, Buenos Aires: Ernesto Tornquist Co., Limited, page XVII

Examples of calid in a sentence

  • 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.)1982 September 12, “Archipelago Consists Of Over 1,600 Islands”, in The Japan Times, number 30054, Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd., →ISSN...
  • 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.1993, Joe Donnelly, Still Life, London […]: Century, →ISBN, page 419:
  • A calid sun, just risen, cast a fiery glow over the House of Nevisanus.2001, Jacqueline Heath Hume, The House of Nevisanus, Seattle, W.A.: Hara Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 118:
  • 'Certainly you may,' said Keats civilly, 'we're just shooting the bries.' Eliot whimpered dimly in the calid afternoon.2008, Tom Mathews, “Not with a Bang”, in Keats and Chapman, Dublin: New Island Books, →ISBN, page 103:

Forms of calid

comparativemore calid
superlativemost calid

Origin of calid

From Latin calidus (“hot”), from caleō (“to be 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”).

Words that rhyme with calid

Questions about calid

What does calid mean?
Calid means warm, hot.
How do you use calid in a sentence?
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.)
What part of speech is calid?
Calid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce calid?
Calid is pronounced /ˈkælɪd/.

Words near calid in the dictionary

  1. caliculate
  2. caliculato-ramose
  3. caliculi
  4. caliculus
  5. Calicut
  6. calid
  7. calidaria
  8. calidarium
  9. calidariums
  10. calidities
  11. calidity

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