liquid

Meaning

1. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
2. Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.

fluid

water

liquid state

succus

plunge into water

matter of chance

liquidum

aqua pura

uncrannied

liq

thick liquid

H2O

debonair

debonnaire

Frequency

Hyphenated as

liq‧uid

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɪkwɪd/

From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).

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