Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *(w)likʷēō
Latin liqueō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin liquidusbor.
Old French liquidebor.
Middle English liquide
English liquid
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). 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”).
Meanings
(physical) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
liquid nitrogen
(of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
(of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
a liquid melody
Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
/l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.
Fluid and transparent.
the liquid air
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Labels
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most liquid
Degree=Sup
lexicographic
more liquid
Degree=Cmp
lexicographic
Antonyms
solid (antonym(s) of “flowing freely”) · illiquid (antonym(s) of “easily sold”) · gaseous (antonym(s) of “flowing freely”) · illiquid (antonym(s) of “having sufficient activity”)
et likviidne ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · et likviidne ((of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) · de flüssig (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · gv so-eaysley (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · th เหลว (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · tl likido (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · is fljótandi (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sh тѐкӯћӣ (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · ru жи́дкий (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · pt líquido ((of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) · sq lëng (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sl likviden ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · hy հեղուկ (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · lv likvīds ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · ka თხევადი (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · grc ῥυτός (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · lt skystas (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · hi तरल (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sk tekutý (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · lld luter (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · be ва́дкі (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · cs kapalný (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · ast líquidu ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · sl tekoč (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · crh şingen (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · he נזיל ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · id cair (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · hy իրացվելի ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · sq rrjedhshëm ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · enm liquide (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · oc liquid (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · lv šķidrs (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · pt líquido ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · is handbær ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · hi द्रव (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sl likviden ((of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) · pl płynny ((of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) · fi likvidi ((of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) · vi lỏng (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · bg ликви́ден ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · pl ciekły (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · tr sıvı (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · ms cair (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · fi nestemäinen (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · ht likid (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · hy լիկվիդային ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · hu folyékony (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · he נוזלי (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · ru ликви́дный ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · ltg škeists (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · fi neste- (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · pl płynny (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sh tèkūćī (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · pa ਤਰਲ (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · ro lichid ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · es líquido ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · af vloeibaar (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · uk рідки́й (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · ca líquid (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sv flytande (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · it liquido (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · cs tekutý (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sw majimaji (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · gl líquido (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · el υγρός (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sh žȉdak (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · gl líquido ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · ga leachtach (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · cy hylif (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · vi nước (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · pdt flissent (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · ba шыйыҡ (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · no flytende (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · eo likva (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · cmn 液態 /液态 (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · cs likvidní ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · hu likvid ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · fr liquide (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · bg те́чен (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · da flydende (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · is greiðslufær ((of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) · et vedel (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · nl vloeibaar (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sh lȉkvīdan ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · sh lȉkvīdan ((of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) · sh ли̏квӣдан ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · az sıyıq (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · mn шингэн (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sh жидак (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · pl płynny ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · fi likvidi ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · ro lichid (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · lt likvidus ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · ia liquide (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · es líquido (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · no likvid ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · cy hylifol (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · fr liquide ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · hy իրացվելի ((of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) · ast líquidu (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · sk likvidné ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · ca líquid ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of) · cmn 液體 /液体 (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · pt líquido (fluid; not solid and not gaseous) · de disponibel ((of an asset) easily sold or disposed of)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *(w)likʷēō
Latin liqueō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin liquidusbor.
Old French liquidebor.
Middle English liquide
English liquid
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). 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”).
Meanings
(countable, physical, uncountable) 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.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped. 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
(countable, uncountable) Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
Many female forenames are regarded as euphonyms. What is and is not euphonious is necessarily subjective, but it could be suggested that names containing labials (b, m), sibilants (s, sh) and liquids (l, r) are more likely to be euphonyms than those that do not. 1996, Adrian Room, An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies, page 41:
[…]-able does not attach to verbs ending in a postconsonantal liquid […] 1999, Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity, page 86:
ru пла́вный звук (sound) · cmn 液體 /液体 (substance that is liquid) · az maye (substance that is liquid) · de Flüssigkeit (substance that is liquid) · tr likit (substance that is liquid) · si දියරය (substance that is liquid) · crh şingenlik (substance that is liquid) · tg моеъ (substance that is liquid) · az cuyuq (substance that is liquid) · es líquida (sound) · th พยัญชนะเหลว (sound) · he נוֹזֵל (substance that is liquid) · sq lëng (substance that is liquid) · tk suwuklyk (substance that is liquid) · cy cytsain dawdd (sound) · sh alveolar (sound) · nan-hbl 液體 /液体 (substance that is liquid) · ps مايع (substance that is liquid) · hu folyadék (substance that is liquid) · nl vloeistof (substance that is liquid) · ast líquidu (substance that is liquid) · uk рідина́ (substance that is liquid) · acw سايل (substance that is liquid) · ms cecair (substance that is liquid) · pl ciecz (substance that is liquid) · yue 液體 /液体 (substance that is liquid) · kmr şile (substance that is liquid) · ro lichid (substance that is liquid) · cs tekutina (substance that is liquid) · ug سۇيۇقلۇق (substance that is liquid) · th ของเหลว (substance that is liquid) · da væske (substance that is liquid) · sh ликвида (sound) · hy հեղուկ (substance that is liquid) · sw majimaji (substance that is liquid) · af vloeistof (substance that is liquid) · my အရည် (substance that is liquid) · sh lìkvida (sound) · as পনীয়া (substance that is liquid) · be ва́дкасць (substance that is liquid) · ja 流体 (substance that is liquid) · gd sùgh (substance that is liquid) · cmn 液態 /液态 (substance that is liquid) · hu lé (substance that is liquid) · sq lëngëtore (sound) · gl líquido (substance that is liquid) · sh desnik (sound) · el υγρό (substance that is liquid) · de Liquida (sound) · sv vätska (substance that is liquid) · mr द्रव (substance that is liquid) · sh tèkūćnīk (sound) · ba шыйыҡса (substance that is liquid) · kaq jene (substance that is liquid) · cy hylif (substance that is liquid) · dua madíbádíbá class 6 (substance that is liquid) · sh tȅčnōst (substance that is liquid) · eu isurkari (substance that is liquid) · enm licour (substance that is liquid) · sh tekùćina (substance that is liquid) · tl likido (substance that is liquid) · de Liquid (sound) · ar سَائِل (substance that is liquid) · et vedelik (substance that is liquid) · kk сұйықтық (substance that is liquid) · lo ທາດແຫຼວ (substance that is liquid) · bg те́чност (substance that is liquid) · fi neste (substance that is liquid) · ro lichidă (sound) · lt skystis (substance that is liquid) · sh те̏чно̄ст (substance that is liquid) · ur مائع (substance that is liquid) · fr liquide (sound) · ky суюктук (substance that is liquid) · eu likido (substance that is liquid) · gl líquida (sound) · nl vloeiklank (sound) · ko 액체 (substance that is liquid) · ka სითხე (substance that is liquid) · lv plūdenis (sound) · sk tekutina (substance that is liquid) · lv šķidrums (substance that is liquid) · nrf litchide (substance that is liquid) · is vökvi (substance that is liquid) · eo likvaĵo (substance that is liquid) · it liquido (substance that is liquid) · sl likvida (sound) · sk kvapalina (substance that is liquid) · acw مايع (substance that is liquid) · la latex (substance that is liquid) · az sızağan (substance that is liquid) · id likuida (sound) · mk течност (substance that is liquid) · cy toddyn (sound) · sl tekočina (substance that is liquid) · es líquido (substance that is liquid) · ny madzimadzi (substance that is liquid) · bn তরল (substance that is liquid) · oc liquid (substance that is liquid) · ca líquid (substance that is liquid) · tr sıvı (substance that is liquid) · nb væske (substance that is liquid) · hi तरल (substance that is liquid) · vi nước (substance that is liquid) · ang wæt (substance that is liquid) · it liquida (sound) · vi chất lỏng (substance that is liquid) · ms cairan (substance that is liquid) · mn шингэн (substance that is liquid) · ja リキッド (substance that is liquid) · fr liquide (substance that is liquid) · nn væske (substance that is liquid) · ru жи́дкость (substance that is liquid) · ps چیستکی (substance that is liquid) · is mjúkhljóð (sound) · pt líquido (substance that is liquid) · gd lionn (substance that is liquid) · uz suyuqlik (substance that is liquid) · ja 液体 (substance that is liquid) · moh ohné꞉ka (substance that is liquid) · fi likvida (sound) · km រាវ (substance that is liquid) · izh nesse (substance that is liquid) · ar مَائِع (substance that is liquid) · hi द्रव (substance that is liquid) · as জুলীয়া (substance that is liquid) · yue 液態 /液态 (substance that is liquid) · fa مایع (substance that is liquid) · egy r:Dw-w-Aa2:H_SPACE (substance that is liquid) · fa آبگونه (substance that is liquid) · ml ദ്രാവകം (substance that is liquid) · id cairan (substance that is liquid) · cs kapalina (substance that is liquid) · la liquidus (substance that is liquid) · eo likvo (substance that is liquid) · de Fließlaut (sound) · ga leacht (substance that is liquid)