Splendid
/ˈsplɛn.dɪd/noun
Very impressive, beautiful, or magnificent.
Did you know?Splendid comes from Latin splendere, “to shine,” and its deeper family is the same root behind words for gleaming light and radiance across Indo-European languages.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*splei-
“to shine, to be bright”
Latin
Latin
splendere
“to shine, glitter”
Latin
Latin
splendidus
“bright, shining, magnificent”
Late Latin
Latin
splendidus
“showy, magnificent, splendid”
16th Century
English
splendid
“brilliant, shining; magnificent, stately”
Modern English
English
splendid
“very impressive, beautiful, or magnificent”