refrigerate

English

Etymology

From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪdʒəɹeɪt/

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Verb

refrigerate (third-person singular simple present refrigerates, present participle refrigerating, simple past and past participle refrigerated)

1. (transitive, obsolete in general sense) To cool down, make cool.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.149:

     the other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.

2. (transitive) Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.

   Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.

Synonyms

• (within a refrigerator): fridge

Related terms

• refrigerant
• refrigeration
• refrigerator

Translations

keep cool in refrigerator

• Arabic:

  Egyptian: يسقع‎ m (yesáʔʔaʕ)

• Bulgarian: охлаждам (ohlaždam)
• Catalan: refrigerar (ca)
• Finnish: jäähdyttää (fi)
• French: réfrigérer (fr)
• German: kühlen (de)

• Ido: frigorizar (io), koldigar (io)
• Portuguese: refrigerar (pt)
• Romanian: refrigera (ro)
• Russian: храни́ть в холоди́льнике (xranítʹ v xolodílʹnike)
• Scottish Gaelic: fionnaraich
• Spanish: refrigerar (es)

freeze — see freeze

cool down — see cool down

See also

• refrigeration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

refrigerate

1. inflection of refrigerare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

refrigerate f pl

1. feminine plural of refrigerato

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Latin

Verb

refrīgerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of refrīgerō