frigidus
Latin
Alternative forms
- fricdus, frigdus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
- fridus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)
Etymology
From frīgeō (“I am cold”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfriː.ɡi.dus/, [ˈfriːɡɪd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfri.d͡ʒi.dus/, [ˈfriːd͡ʒid̪us]
- Hyphenation: frī‧gi‧dus
Adjective
frīgidus (feminine frīgida, neuter frīgidum, comparative frīgidior, superlative frīgidissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- cold, cool, chilling
- (figuratively) indifferent, feeble
- (figuratively) dull, flat, insipid, trivial, vain
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | frīgidus | frīgida | frīgidum | frīgidī | frīgidae | frīgida | |
Genitive | frīgidī | frīgidae | frīgidī | frīgidōrum | frīgidārum | frīgidōrum | |
Dative | frīgidō | frīgidō | frīgidīs | ||||
Accusative | frīgidum | frīgidam | frīgidum | frīgidōs | frīgidās | frīgida | |
Ablative | frīgidō | frīgidā | frīgidō | frīgidīs | |||
Vocative | frīgide | frīgida | frīgidum | frīgidī | frīgidae | frīgida |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: fríu
- → Catalan: frígid
- Corsican: freddu, frettu, fritu
- → English: frigid
- Franco-Provençal: frêd, fre
- → French: frigide
- Friulian: frêt, frêd (alternative orthography), frêd
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: friu
- Istriot: frido
- → Italian: frigido
- Kabuverdianu: friu
- Ladin: frëit
- Old French: freid, frait, freit, froit, froit
- Old Italian:
- Italian: freddo
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: frio
- Old Spanish: frido, frio
- Spanish: frío
- Papiamentu: friu
- → Portuguese: frígido
- → Romanian: frigid
- Romansch: fraid, fred (Sutsilvan); freid (Sursilvan, Surmiran), freid
- Sicilian: friddu
- → Spanish: frígido
- Venetian: fredo, fret
References
- “frigidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “frigidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frigidus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- frigidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.