livid

A large, livid hematoma (bruise) on the inner left thigh of the subject, five days after he fell from a cliff while snowboarding

Meaning

Adjective

Having a dark, bluish appearance.
Pale, pallid.
So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious.

Origin

From Middle English livid, livide, from Old French livide, from Latin līvidus ("bluish, livid; envious"), from līveō, from Proto-Italic *sliwēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leh₃y-. See also Old English slā ("sloe"), Welsh lliw ("splendor, color"), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slyvas ("plum"), and Russian and Old Church Slavonic слива.

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