livid
意味
- 鉛色の,土色の;(打ち身などで)青黒くなった
- 《話》(怒って)青くなった
例文
The section chief was really livid. What did you do?
部長カンカンになって怒ってたぞ。お前何をしたんだよ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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”).