gelus

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.lus]

Noun

gelus m sg (genitive gelūs); fourth declension

1. alternative form of gelū̆
   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Marcus Porcius Cato, De agri cultura 40.4.5:

     Postea stramentis circumdato alligatoque, ne gelus noceat.

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   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Marcus Porcius Cato, Origines 33.2:

     Libii, qui 
aquatum ut lignatum videntur ire, securim atque lorum ferunt, gelum 
crassum excidunt, eum loro conligatum auferunt.

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   • c. 140 BCE – 104 BCE, Accius, Tragoediae Prometheus:

     tum profusus flamine hiberno gelus

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   • Lucius Afranius, togatae 106:

     Quis tu es ventoso in loco
     soleatus, intempesta noctu sub Iove
     aperto capite, silices cum findat gelus?

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   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 8.104.1:

     Observatum eam aure ad glaciem adposita coniectare crassitudinem gelus.

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Usage notes

• Nominative singular gelus and accusative singular gelum are attested in Old, Classical and Late Latin. These forms could alternatively belong to the second declension (genitive gelī) and if used as a second-declension form, the accusative gelum could alternatively be neuter in gender.
• The rare genitive singular gelūs and the frequent ablative singular gelū are unambiguously fourth-declension, but could alternatively be neuter in gender; see gelū̆.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	gelus
genitive	gelūs
dative	geluī
accusative	gelum
ablative	gelū
vocative	gelus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛ.ɫuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.lus]

Noun

gelūs

1. genitive singular of gelū̆

References

• “gelū” in volume 6, part 2, column 1732, line 1 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “gelum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gelu”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "gelus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Adjective

gelus

1. alternative form of jelous

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin zelosus. See jalous.

Adjective

gelus m (oblique and nominative feminine singular geluse or gelusse)

1. eager; zealous
2. jealous
   • circa 1250, Marie de France, Lai de Guigemar,

     Gelus esteit a desmesure

     He was jealous, incredibly so