frigidus

Alternative forms

• fricdus, frigdus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
• fridus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)

Etymology

From frīgeō (“I am cold”) +‎ -idus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfriː.ɡi.dus/, [ˈfriːɡɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfri.d͡ʒi.dus/, [ˈfriːd͡ʒid̪us]
• Hyphenation: frī‧gi‧dus

Adjective

frīgidus (feminine frīgida, neuter frīgidum, comparative frīgidior, superlative frīgidissimus, adverb frīgidē); first/second-declension adjective

1. cold, cool, chilling, frigid

   Synonyms: algidus, gelidus

   Antonym: calidus

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.683–684:

     frīgida Carseolīs nec olīvīs apta ferendīs
     terrā, sed ad segetēs ingeniōsus ager

     [It was] cold in the land of Carseoli, not even fit for growing olives,
     but with soil well-adapted for grain crops.
     (See Carsoli.)

2. (figuratively) indifferent, feeble
3. (figuratively) dull, flat, insipid, trivial, vain
   • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistles 1.9:

     Quot dies quam frigidis rebus absumpsi

     How many days have I wasted through vapid things?

References

• “frigidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frigidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frigidus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• frigidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.