It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 15th.
Today's word is limpid, spelled L-I-M-P-I-D.
Limpid is an adjective.
It describes things that are perfectly transparent or clear or that are simple in style.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the LA Times by Mark Olson.
The movie's opulent sets and Giuseppe Rotunno's limpid cinematography transmit a palpable yearning for the gilded palaces and gala balls of a bygone era.
Let's clarify a few things about the word limpid.
Since the early 1600s,
this word has been used in English to describe things that have the soft clearness of pure water.
The aquatic connection isn't incidental.
Language scholars believe that limpid probably traces to limfa, a Latin word meaning water.
That same Latin root is also the source of the English word lymph, L-Y-M-P-H,
the term for the pale liquid that helps maintain the body's fluid balance,
and that removes bacteria from tissues.
While limpid was used originally to describe liquid's free of visible cloudy material,
it didn't take long for the word to gain its figurative sense of clear and simple in style.
and, despite its similarity to the unrelated adjective limp, which can be used to describe writing,
for example, that lacks spirit or oomph, limpid carries no such negative connotations.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.