livid
li·vid
adjective
1.
2.
(of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity
- “livid lightning streaked the sky”
- “a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day” E.A.Poe
4.
discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
- “beaten black and blue”
- “livid bruises”
Origin
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”).
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