frío

See also: frio

Asturian

Adjective

frío n sg

1. neuter singular of fríu

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese frio, from Latin frīgidus. Compare Portuguese frio, Spanish frío, Asturian fríu. Doublet of fríxido, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɾiʊ]

Adjective

frío (feminine fría, masculine plural fríos, feminine plural frías)

1. cold

Spanish

Alternative forms

• fredo (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾio/ [ˈfɾi.o]
• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: frí‧o

Etymology 1

This form derives from Old Spanish frio, from Latin frīgidus (“cold”) (by natural sound changes through a hypothetical intermediate early Ibero-Romance or proto-Spanish form *friyio), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sriHgos-, *sriges-, *sriHges-. See also the variant Old Spanish form frido, which came instead from a Vulgar or Late Latin form fridus (attested in some Pompeian inscriptions), from frigdus, fricdus (attested in the Appendix Probi), syncopated form of frīgidus. It is from this form that most Romance descendants arose (e.g. Catalan fred, French froid, Italian freddo). Compare also the borrowed doublet frígido. Cognate with English frigid.

Adjective

frío (feminine fría, masculine plural fríos, feminine plural frías)

1. cold (having a low temperature)

   Antonym: caliente

2. (of a color) cool

   Antonym: cálido

3. cold (unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling)
4. cool (of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself)

Derived terms

• a sangre fría
• avefría
• bala fría
• cadena de frío
• caer como un baldado de agua fría
• cera fría
• con la fría
• de sangre fría
• en frío
• fiambre
• frente frío
• fríamente
• friera
• friísimo
• gota fría
• guerra fría
• la venganza es un plato que se sirve frío
• sangre fría
• sudor frío

 

Related terms

• frialdad
• frígido
• frigoría
• frigorífico
• friolento
• friolero
• frior
• friura

 

Noun

frío m (plural fríos)

1. cold, coldness (a condition of low temperature)

   Antonym: calor

   Había nevado tanto que el frío quemaba en la montaña.

   It had snowed so much that it was freezing by the mountain.

   (literally, “It had snowed so much that the cold was burning by the mountain.”)

Etymology 2

Verb

frío

1. first-person singular present indicative of freír

Further reading

• “frío”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014