refrigerate

English

Etymology

From participle stem of Latin refrigerare (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɹɪˈfɹɪdʒəɹeɪt/

Verb

refrigerate (third-person singular simple present refrigerates, present participle refrigerating, simple past and past participle refrigerated)

1. (transitive, obsolete in general sense) To cool down, make cool.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 149:

     the other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.

2. (transitive) Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.

   Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.

Translations

keep cool in refrigerator

• Arabic:

  Egyptian: يسقع (yesáʔʔaʕ) m

• Catalan: refrigerar (ca)
• Finnish: jäähdyttää (fi)
• French: réfrigérer (fr)

• German: kühlen (de)
• Portuguese: refrigerar (pt)
• Romanian: refrigera (ro)
• Russian: хранить в холодильнике (ru) (xranítʹ v xolodílʹnike) 
• Scottish Gaelic: fionnaraich (gd)

freeze — see freeze

cool down — see cool down

Related terms

• refrigerant
• refrigeration
• refrigerator

See also

• refrigeration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:refrigeration

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Italian

Verb

refrigerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of refrigerare
2. second-person plural imperative of refrigerare
3. Feminine plural of refrigerato

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Latin

Verb

rēfrīgerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of rēfrīgerō