candide

Learned borrowing from Latin candidus (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.did/

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• Rhymes: -id

candide (plural candides)

1. candid, frank

   Near-synonyms: franc, honnête

2. naive, overtrusting

   Synonym: naïf

• candidement

• candeur

candide m or f by sense (plural candides)

1. a candid person

candide m (plural candides)

1. a mountain clouded yellow (Colias phicomone), a butterfly of Europe

• “candide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

candide

1. feminine plural of candido

candide

1. vocative masculine singular of candidus

• “candide”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “candide”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.