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gelidus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Derived from gel(ū) (frost”, “chill) +‎ -idus (tending to, adjectival derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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gelidus (feminine gelida, neuter gelidum, comparative gelidior, superlative gelidissimus, adverb gelidē); first/second-declension adjective

  1. ice-cold, icy, frosty
  2. chilling

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative gelidus gelida gelidum gelidī gelidae gelida
genitive gelidī gelidae gelidī gelidōrum gelidārum gelidōrum
dative gelidō gelidae gelidō gelidīs
accusative gelidum gelidam gelidum gelidōs gelidās gelida
ablative gelidō gelidā gelidō gelidīs
vocative gelide gelida gelidum gelidī gelidae gelida
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Descendants

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  • Catalan: geliu, gèlid (learned)
  • English: gelid
  • Galician: xélido
  • Italian: gelido
  • Portuguese: gélido
  • Spanish: gélido

References

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  • gelidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gelidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gelidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256