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See also: Frigidaire
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proprietary name of a brand of refrigerators.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
frigidaire (plural frigidaires)
- (now historical) Trademark for a refrigerator.
- 1939, W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen:
- He [...] had everything necessary to the Modern Man, / A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- “Have you seen Kipper?” I wouldn't say she snorted, but she certainly sniffed. “Bertie,” she said in a voice straight from the frigidaire, “will you do me a favour?” “Of course. What?” “Don't mention that rat's name in my presence,” she said, and pushed off, the eyelids still weary.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 659:
- Carpets were spread, divans appeared, as also the latest creation from Italy, a portable frigidaire which held countless bowls of sorbet and iced lemon tea.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proprietary name, apparently originally based on Latin frigidarium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
frigidaire m (plural frigidaires)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “frigidaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French frigidaire, from a genericized trademark based on Latin frīgidārium, derived from frīgidus (“cold, cool”). Doublet of frigidario.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
frigidaire m (invariable)
- (obsolete) refrigerator
- Synonym: frigorifero
Further reading[edit]
- frigidaire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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