laid
Meaning
- physically ugly
- morally corrupt
Concepts
ugly-looking
Synonyms
Translations
feo
brutto
feio
hässlich
lelijk
άσχημος
turpis
قبيح
lleig
çirkinFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lɛ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English lāþ (“unpleasant, odious”), Catalan lleig (“ugly”), Occitan lag (“ugly”). More at loath.
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