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prettygoodwordTime for another theme week: 5 x 5.
nitid (NIT-id) - adj., bright, lustrous, glistening.
Now (and possibly always) mostly a poeticism, those I confess I've never used it in a poem. Or, indeed, at all. First borrowed in 1619 from Latin nitidus, shining, bright, from nitēre, to glisten, shine -- which makes it, interestingly enough, a cognate of neat from the same root via French.
---L.
nitid (NIT-id) - adj., bright, lustrous, glistening.
Now (and possibly always) mostly a poeticism, those I confess I've never used it in a poem. Or, indeed, at all. First borrowed in 1619 from Latin nitidus, shining, bright, from nitēre, to glisten, shine -- which makes it, interestingly enough, a cognate of neat from the same root via French.
---L.
