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Latin
Etymology
Derived from gel(ū) (“frost”, “chill”) + -idus (“tending to”, adjectival derivational suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
gelidus (feminine gelida, neuter gelidum, comparative gelidior, superlative gelidissimus, adverb gelidē); first/second-declension adjective
- ice-cold, icy, frosty
- chilling
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “gelidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gelidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gelidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256