timid

• adj.臆病な；内気な

ラテン語のtimere「恐れさせる」から。おそらくPIE*teme「暗い」が語源で、語源はtemerity「臆病」と同じ。

timid

timid: [16] The Latin verb timēre meant ‘fear’ (its origins are not known). From it were derived the adjective timidus (source of English timid) and the noun timor ‘fear’ (whose medieval Latin descendant timorōsus ‘fearful’ gave English timorous [15]).
=> timorous

timid (adj.)

1540s, from Middle French timide "easily frightened, shy" (16c.) and directly from Latin timidus "fearful, afraid, cowardly," from timere "to fear," of uncertain origin. Related: Timidly; timidness.

1. The newspaper called the plan timid and unimaginative.

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