gelidus

Latin

Etymology

By surface analysis, gelū (“frost”, “chill”) +‎ -idus (“tending to”, adjectival derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛ.lɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.li.dus]

Adjective

gelidus (feminine gelida, neuter gelidum, comparative gelidior, superlative gelidissimus, adverb gelidē); first/second-declension adjective

1. ice-cold, icy, frosty
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 15.547–551:

     Non tamen Egeriae luctus aliena levare
     damna valent; montisque iacens radicibus imis
     liquitur in lacrimas, donec pietate dolentis
     mota soror Phoebi gelidum de corpore fontem
     fecit et aeternas artus tenuavit in undas.

     But the woes of others did not have the strength to lift Egeria's griefs; and lying at the lowest roots of a mountain she melted into tears, until, moved by the faithfulness of her suffering, the sister of Phoebus made from her body a cool spring, and weakened her limbs into eternal streams.

2. chilling

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	gelidus	gelida	gelidum		gelidī	gelidae	gelida
genitive	gelidī	gelidae	gelidī		gelidōrum	gelidārum	gelidōrum
dative	gelidō	gelidae	gelidō		gelidīs
accusative	gelidum	gelidam	gelidum		gelidōs	gelidās	gelida
ablative	gelidō	gelidā	gelidō		gelidīs
vocative	gelide	gelida	gelidum		gelidī	gelidae	gelida

Derived terms

• ēgelidus
• gelidē

Related terms

• gelō
• gelum

Descendants

• Catalan: geliu, → gèlid (learned)
• → English: gelid
• → Galician: xélido
• Italian: gelido
• → Portuguese: gélido
• Spanish: gélido

References

• “gelidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gelidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gelidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256