livid

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Having a dark, bluish appearance.
Pale, pallid.
(informal) So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɪvɪd/

Inherited from Middle English

Cognate with Old English

Cognate with Welsh

Cognate with Old Irish

Cognate with Lithuanian

Cognate with Russian

Cognate with Church Slavic

In summary

From Middle English livid, livide, from Old French livide, from Latin līvidus (“bluish, livid; envious”), from līveō (“be of a bluish color or livid; envy”), from Proto-Italic *sliwēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). See also Old English slā (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slyvas (“plum”), and Russian and Old Church Slavonic слива (sliva, “plum”).