FromLatintranslucidus, fromtrans(“across, through”) +lucidus(“lucid”). CompareFrenchtranslucide. Seetranslucent.

translucid (comparativemoretranslucid,superlativemosttranslucid)

1. Translucent.
   • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:

     The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they aretranslucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red

   • 1844, Emerson,The Poet:

     This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making themtranslucid to others.

   • 2013, Alice Fabre,Metal Language:

     Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force andtranslucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.

• “translucid”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• Curtisland

Borrowed fromFrenchtranslucide, fromLatintranslucidus.

translucid m orn (feminine singulartranslucidă,masculine pluraltranslucizi,feminine and neuter pluraltranslucide)

1. translucent

• transluciditate

translucid

1. second-personpluralimperative oftranslucir

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