gelu

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese gelo.

Noun

gelu

1. ice

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Latin

Alternative forms

• gelus, gelum

Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Related to English cold.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.luː/, [ˈɡɛɫ̪uː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.lu/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːlu]

Noun

gelū n sg (genitive gelūs); fourth declension

1. frost
   • 15th century, A nominale [with a mentioning]. In: Anglo-Saxon and old English vocabularies by Thomas Wright. Second edition. Edited and collated by Richard Paul Wülcker. Volume I: Vocabularies, London, 1884, column 736:

     Hoc gelu, indeclinabile, frost.

2. cold, chill

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	gelū
Genitive	gelūs
Dative	gelū
Accusative	gelū
Ablative	gelū
Vocative	gelū

Derived terms

• gelidus
• gelō

Descendants

• Aromanian: dzer
• Asturian: xelu
• Catalan: gel
• English: gel
• French: gel
• Galician: xeo
• Italian: gelo
• Occitan: gèl
• Portuguese: gelo
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: djelu
  • Kabuverdianu: gelu
• Romanian: ger
• Sicilian: gelu, ghiellu
• Spanish: hielo
  • Tagalog: yelo
• Venetian: geło, xeło

References

• “gelu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gelu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gelu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
    

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Old Saxon

Adjective

gelu

1. Alternative form of gelo