some English adjectives derived from Latin

1] candid: an adjective meaning 'truthful, honest, open, sincere, impartial' candid comes from the Latin adjective candidus. While candidus can be translated as 'shining white, clear, bright,' or 'beautiful,' it is a combination of the verb candeo, which means 'shine, glitter, glisten,' or 'glow,' and the suffix -idus, which means 'tending to.' So, originally candidus meant something more like 'shining' or 'glittering,' and then eventually gained the sense of clarity or purity, which English eventually picked up with candid. 2] languid: an adjective meaning 'weak, faint, listless, slow, relaxed, sluggish' languid, similarly to candid, comes from the Latin adjective languidus, which in turn comes from the verb langueo, 'be weak, faint.' However, if you add the suffix -sco to this verb, you get the inchoative or inceptive verb languesco, which means 'become faint, feeble, weak' or 'wilt,' as these verbs describe the process of the stative verb they are built from. candesco, from candeo,…