liquid

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A substance that flows freely, like water, and takes the shape of its container.

   A liquid can freeze into a solid or evaporate into a gas.

2. 2
   adj

   Flowing freely like water; neither solid nor gas.

   They cooled the gas until it became liquid.

3. 3
   adj

   Held as cash or easily turned into cash.

   The company kept some liquid assets for emergencies.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷ-éh₁-ye-ti Proto-Italic *wlikʷēō Latin liqueō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. 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”).

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