refrigerate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪdʒəɹeɪt/

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.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069:, 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.

Translations

keep cool in refrigerator

• Arabic:

  Egyptian: يسقع‏‎ m (yesáʔʔaʕ)

• 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

Related terms

• refrigerant
• refrigeration
• refrigerator

See also

• refrigeration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Verb

refrigerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of refrigerare
2. second-person plural imperative of refrigerare
3. feminine plural of refrigerato

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Latin

Verb

rēfrīgerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of rēfrīgerō