slidens

• (dialectal form) slids

From the same stem as Latvian slīdēt (“to slide”) and slaids (“slender, slim”): Proto-Baltic *slid +‎ -ens, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“slippery, to slide”). A dialectal variant slids (“slippery”), without the suffix, also exists (compare Lithuanian slidùs (“slippery”)).^[1]

slidens (definite slidenais, comparative slidenāks, superlative visslidenākais, adverb slideni)

1. slippery, slick (with a surface that has little attrition)

   slidens ceļš ― slippery path, road

   slidena virsma ― slippery surface

   slidens parkets ― slippery flooring

   slidenas kurpju zoles ― slippery shoe soles

   slidenas kāpnes ― slippery stairs

2. (figuratively) slippery, slick (associated with risk, with difficulty)

   slidens pasākums ― a slippery, difficult enterprise, project

   diezgan slidena dzejas problēma ― the rather slippery problem of poetry

• slidenums

• slīdēt
• slidot