frigo

See also: Frigo, frigó, and frigo-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French frigo, apocopic form of réfrigérateur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriɣoː/

• Audio:

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Noun

frigo m (plural frigo's, diminutive frigootje n)

1. (Belgium) fridge, refrigerator

Synonyms

• (fridge): ijskast, koelkast

French

Etymology

Clipping of frigorifique, frigorifié, or réfrigérateur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.ɡo/

Noun

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (colloquial) fridge; refrigerator

Coordinate terms

• congélateur
• frigidaire
• réfrigérateur

Descendants

• → Dutch: frigo
• → Norman: frigo

Further reading

• “frigo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Clipping of frigorifero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfri.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Hyphenation: frì‧go

• Audio:

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Noun

frigo m (invariable)

1. fridge, refrigerator

   Synonym: frigorifero

Anagrams

• Grifo, forgi, grifo, grofi

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰer(H)-g- (“to roast, grill, fry”); cf. Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”). However, Latin frīg- would point to *bʰreyg⁽ʰ⁾-, which lacks formal cognates. De Vaan suggests the word is a loan from late Ancient Greek or another source, following Giacomelli (1994), who assumes it is a late Greek borrowing. Probably related to Umbrian frehtu. See also fertum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfriː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfriː.ɡo]

Verb

frīgō (present infinitive frīgere, perfect active frīxī, supine frīctum or frīxum); third conjugation

1. to roast, fry
2. to parch
   • 1934, Cato, Varro, Agriculture, Harvard University Press, page 98:

     Sesquilibram salis frigito, eodem indito et rude misceto usque adeo, donec ovum gallinaceum coctum natabit, desinito miscere.

     Parch half a pound of salt, add it in, and stir with a stick, until a boiled chicken egg floats, then stop stiring.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of frīgō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	frīgō		frīgis		frīgit		frīgimus		frīgitis		frīgunt
	imperfect	frīgēbam		frīgēbās		frīgēbat		frīgēbāmus		frīgēbātis		frīgēbant
	future	frīgam		frīgēs		frīget		frīgēmus		frīgētis		frīgent
	perfect	frīxī		frīxistī		frīxit		frīximus		frīxistis		frīxērunt, frīxēre
	pluperfect	frīxeram		frīxerās		frīxerat		frīxerāmus		frīxerātis		frīxerant
	future perfect	frīxerō		frīxeris		frīxerit		frīxerimus		frīxeritis		frīxerint
passive	present	frīgor		frīgeris, frīgere		frīgitur		frīgimur		frīgiminī		frīguntur
	imperfect	frīgēbar		frīgēbāris, frīgēbāre		frīgēbātur		frīgēbāmur		frīgēbāminī		frīgēbantur
	future	frīgar		frīgēris, frīgēre		frīgētur		frīgēmur		frīgēminī		frīgentur
	perfect	frīctus or frīxus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	frīctus or frīxus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	frīctus or frīxus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	frīgam		frīgās		frīgat		frīgāmus		frīgātis		frīgant
	imperfect	frīgerem		frīgerēs		frīgeret		frīgerēmus		frīgerētis		frīgerent
	perfect	frīxerim		frīxerīs		frīxerit		frīxerīmus		frīxerītis		frīxerint
	pluperfect	frīxissem		frīxissēs		frīxisset		frīxissēmus		frīxissētis		frīxissent
passive	present	frīgar		frīgāris, frīgāre		frīgātur		frīgāmur		frīgāminī		frīgantur
	imperfect	frīgerer		frīgerēris, frīgerēre		frīgerētur		frīgerēmur		frīgerēminī		frīgerentur
	perfect	frīctus or frīxus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	frīctus or frīxus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		frīge		—		—		frīgite		—
	future	—		frīgitō		frīgitō		—		frīgitōte		frīguntō
passive	present	—		frīgere		—		—		frīgiminī		—
	future	—		frīgitor		frīgitor		—		—		frīguntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		frīgere			frīgī			frīgēns			—
future		frīctūrum esse, frīxūrum esse			frīctum īrī, frīxum īrī			frīctūrus, frīxūrus			frīgendus, frīgundus
perfect		frīxisse			frīctum esse, frīxum esse			—			frīctus, frīxus
future perfect		—			frīctum fore, frīxum fore			—			—
perfect potential		frīctūrum fuisse, frīxūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		frīgendī		frīgendō		frīgendum		frīgendō		frīctum, frīxum		frīctū, frīxū

Derived terms

• frīctus (“roasted, fried; parched”)
• frīxus (“roasted, fried”)

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fríere, fríghere, friri
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: frigu
  • Romanian: frige
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: fregur
  • Italian: friggere
  • Neapolitan: frijere, friere
  • Sicilian: frìjiri
  • Venetan: frìxer, frìxar, frìzar
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fridi
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: fregir
  • Occitan: fregir
  • Old French: frire (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: freyir
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: frigir
    • Galician: frixir
    • Portuguese: frigir
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino: friyir
    • Spanish: freír
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin:
  • *frīctīāre
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: frizzare
  • *frīctūra (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Proto-Albanian:
    • Albanian: fërgoj

References

1. Cato, Varro (1934). On Agriculture. Translated by W. D. Hooper, Harrison Boyd Ash. Loeb Classical Library 283. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Further reading

• “frigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “frigo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • advice is useless in this case; the situation is very embarrassing: omnia consilia frigent (Verr. 2. 25)
    

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French frigo.

Noun

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (Jersey) refrigerator

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of frigorífico.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾiɡo/ [ˈfɾi.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: fri‧go

Noun

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (Spain, colloquial) fridge

Further reading

• “frigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Walloon

Etymology

Borrowed from French frigo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʀi.ɡo/

Noun

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. refrigerator

   Synonym: coûcasse