frigus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sriHgos. Cognate with Ancient Greek ῥῖγος (rhîgos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfriː.ɡus/, [ˈfriːɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfri.ɡus/, [ˈfriːɡus]

Noun

frīgus n (genitive frīgoris); third declension

1. cold, coldness, coolness, chilliness
2. the cold of winter; winter; frost
3. the coldness of death; death
4. a chill, fever
5. a cold shudder which is produced by fear
6. a cold region, place, area or spot
7. (figuratively) inactivity, indolence, slowness
8. (figuratively) a cold reception, indifference

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	frīgus	frīgora
Genitive	frīgoris	frīgorum
Dative	frīgorī	frīgoribus
Accusative	frīgus	frīgora
Ablative	frīgore	frīgoribus
Vocative	frīgus	frīgora

Derived terms

• frīgerō
• frīgeō
• frīgorificus
• frīgorō
• frīgorōsus
• frīgusculum

 

Related terms

• frīgefactō
• frīgeō
• frīgiditās
• frīgidiusculus
• frīgidulus
• frīgidus
• frīgidārius
• frīgidātiō
• frīgidē
• frīgidō
• frīgor
• frīgēdō
• frīgēscō

 

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: frig
  • Romanian: frig
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *frīgulō
  • → Albanian: fërgëlloj

References

• “frigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frigus 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)
• frigus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • temperate climate: aer calore et frigore temperatus
    
  • the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
    
  • to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
    
  • to freeze to death: frigore confici
    
  • to be able to bear heat and cold: aestus et frigoris patientem esse