arrecir

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin arrigēscĕre (“to become stiff”), from Latin arrigĕre (“raise; rouse, excite”). According to Coromines and Pascual, this infinitive arrecir "barely exists" (apenas existe), and prefer to link the adjective arrecido to a supposed verb *arreeçer, of the same etymology, cognate with Galician arrecerse (“get a common cold; become numb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /areˈθiɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /areˈsiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rre‧cir

Verb

arrecir (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite arrecí, past participle arrecido)

1. (transitive) to make something/someone numb with cold
2. (reflexive) to become numbed by cold, to be numbed by cold

Usage notes

• Used only with forms where the ending begins with -i.

Conjugation

Further reading

• “arrecir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “recio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 823