frigide

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus. Doublet of froid, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʁi.ʒid/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

frigide (plural frigides)

  1. frigid (very cold)
  2. frigid (unable to take part in sexual intercourse)

Further reading

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

frigide (strong nominative masculine singular frigider, comparative frigider, superlative am frigidesten)

  1. (medicine) frigid (unable to take part in sexual intercourse)
  2. (rare) frigid (very cold)

Declension

Further reading

  • frigide” in Duden online
  • frigide” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Interlingua

Pronunciation

Adjective

frigide

  1. cold

Antonyms

Italian

Adjective

frigide f pl

  1. feminine plural of frigido

Latin

Adjective

frīgide

  1. vocative masculine singular of frīgidus

Adverb

frīgidē (comparative frīgidius, superlative frīgidissimē)

  1. coldly, coolly, frigidly

References

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