/ˈkælɪd/
OriginFrom Latin calidus (“hot”), from caleō (“I am 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”).
- literary, rareWarm, 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 / Spir”
“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 ev”
“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.)”
Formsmore calid(comparative) · most calid(superlative)