Pronounced: BY-duhnt, noun
Notes: I didn’t know what this word meant, but when I saw the definition, I thought I should have known
Yesterday’s word
The word pellucid means
- admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion
- reflecting light evenly from all surfaces
- easy to understand
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
You may have recognized “lucid” in our word. Our word came from the Latin word per (through) and lucidus (lucid; clear). I know the word “translucent”, but our word is new to me.
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