Pallid
/ˈpælɪd/noun
Pale or lacking color, often from illness, fear, or fatigue.
Did you know?Pallid comes through Latin from a root tied to whiteness, and its older relatives include words for white in several Indo-European languages, showing how color words can travel through millennia.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₂el-
“To be white or bright”
Latin
Latin
albus
“White, bright, or pale”
Latin
Latin
pallidus
“Pale, wan, or bloodless”
Old French
Old French
pale
“Pale, wan”
Middle English
English
pallid
“Pale, wan, or lacking color”
Modern English
English
pallid
“Pale or lacking color, often from illness or fatigue”