calid

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈkælɪd/

Definition of calid

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (literary, rare)Warm, hot.
    “As the flaming / Pit of damnation deep expands its jaws / Of liquid fire! throwing its curly waves / Of calid flames, and smoke of sulph'rous fumes, / O'er the deep gulf of woe! I hear the lost / Spirit shriek, but shriek in vain!”
    “Few States possess a territorial patrimony like that of Argentina, with all the climatic and all the physical conditions required to meet the necessities of a civilized people. Within its frontiers every climate is met with, from the most calid to the coldest.”
    “The great abundance of limestone, and the conditions of a wet and calid weather, have determined a wide distribution of carsic manifestations (caves, rounded-summit hills, hills, lapies, etc.)”
    “He walked through to Caitlin's bedroom. As soon as he opened the door, he smelled her light perfume and the calid closeness of a room where a woman had slept the night.”
    “A calid sun, just risen, cast a fiery glow over the House of Nevisanus.”

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Etymology

From Latin calidus (“hot”), from caleō (“to be warm or hot; glow”) + -idus, from Proto-Italic *kalēō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-. Cognate with Italian calido (“hot”), French chaud (“warm, hot”), Portuguese cálido (“warm”), and Spanish cálido (“warm”).

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