Other forms: liquids
A liquid is anything that flows and takes the shape of its container, like water. A clear liquid, liquid form, liquid and solid.
It keeps its volume where a gas does not, which is what separates the two — a liquid fills the bottom of a container and a gas fills all of it. In finance, liquid means easily turned into cash. Note that the Latin means fluid or moist.
1nounliquidA substance that flows and takes the shape of its container.
“Airport security won't let you take large bottles of liquid in your hand luggage.”
2adjectiveeasilyEasily turned into cash.
“Cash and shares are liquid, but a house can take months to sell.”
liquid is a state of matter.
Latin liquidus means fluid, from liquere, to be fluid. Liquor and liquidate come from the same fluidity.
Middle English
liquide
English, today
liquid
Built from
From Middle English liquide. From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). a doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (“liquid consonant”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA