# refrigerant
## English
### Etymology

From Latin refrīgerāns, present participle of refrīgerō (“I cool, I refresh”).

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

refrigerant (plural refrigerants)
* A substance used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change between gas and liquid to allow the cooling, as in refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.
* That which makes cool or cold, such as a medicine for allaying the symptoms of fever.
** 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 2, Lecture 32, p. 403,
    […] never give warning that you are about to be pathetic; and call upon your hearers, as is sometimes done, to follow you in the attempt. This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to passion.
** 1869, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Cinders from the Ashes”, in Pages from an Old Volume of Life‎, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, published 1883, page 245:[…] taking a blue and white soda-powder, [she] mingled the same in water, and encouraged me to drink the result. It might be a specific for seasickness, but it was not for home-sickness. The fiz was a mockery, and the saline refrigerant struck a colder chill to my despondent heart.

#### See also

* coolant

### Adjective

refrigerant (comparative more refrigerant, superlative most refrigerant)
* (obsolete) That cools or freezes; providing relief from heat or fever.
** 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylua Syluarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, VIII. Century, p. 204,
    This Experiment may be transferred vnto the Cure of Gangrenes, either Comming of themselues, or induced by too much Applying of Opiates: Wherein you must beware of Dry Heat, and resort to Things that are Refrigerant, with an Inward Warmth, and Vertue of Cherishing.
** 1788, John Hawkesworth, “Laudes Dargelli, or, Verses on the Dargle”, in The Poetical Works of John Hawkesworth‎, Dublin, page 25:Here on a bank, refrigerant seat, Screen’d from the Sun’s o’ercoming heat, Some stretch’d at ease the hours employ, In Bacchus’s unbounded joy,
** 1859, Richard Francis Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 29, Chapter 2, pp. 54-55,
    They employ the coco-nut extensively; […] This immoderate use of the fruit is, according to the people, far from wholesome: it is considered, by its refrigerant properties, to cause rheumatic pains […]
** 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “兩／两 (líang)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 350:[He] is robust and can safely take refrigerant food.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [rə.fɾi.ʒəˈɾan]
* IPA: (Balearic) [rə.fɾi.ʒəˈɾant]
* IPA: (Valencia) [re.fɾi.d͡ʒeˈɾant]

### Adjective

refrigerant m or f (masculine and feminine plural refrigerants)
* cooling

### Noun

refrigerant m (plural refrigerants)
* coolant, refrigerant

### Verb

refrigerant
* gerund of refrigerar

### Further reading

* “refrigerant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “refrigerant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “refrigerant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “refrigerant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Verb

refrīgerant
* third-person plural present active indicative of refrīgerō