# frigidus
## Latin
### 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: /ˈfriː.ɡi.dus/, [ˈfriːɡɪd̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfri.d͡ʒi.dus/, [ˈfriːd͡ʒid̪us]
* Hyphenation: frī‧gi‧dus

### Adjective

frīgidus (feminine frīgida, neuter frīgidum, comparative frīgidior, superlative frīgidissimus, adverb frīgidē); first/second-declension adjective
* 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.)
* (figuratively) indifferent, feeble
* (figuratively) dull, flat, insipid, trivial, vain
** 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistles 1.9:Quot dies quam frigidis rebus absumpsiHow many days have I wasted through vapid things?

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

#### Derived terms

* frīgida
* frīgidārius
* frīgidē
* frīgiditās
* frīgidiusculus
* frīgidō
* frīgidulus
* frīgidum

#### Descendants

* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: freddu, frettu, fritu
** Istriot: frido
** Italian: freddo
*** →? Spanish: fredo
** Neapolitan: friddo
** Sicilian: friddu
** Venetan: fredo, fret
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: frêt, frêd (alternative orthography), frêd
** Ladin: frëit
** Romansch: fraid, fred (Sutsilvan), freid (Sursilvan, Surmiran), freid, fraid (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader), fred (Sutsilvan)
* Gallo-Italic:
** Emilian: frèd
** Ligurian: freido
** Lombard: fregg, fred, hegg
** Piedmontese: frèid, fregg
** Romagnol: frèd
* Gallo-Romance:
** Northern:
*** Franco-Provençal: frêd
*** Old French: freid, frait, freit, froit
**** Middle French: froit
***** French: froid
**** Norman: fraid, fré, fréi (Guernsey), freid (continental Normandy)
** Southern:
*** Old Catalan: fret
**** Catalan: fred
*** Occitan:
**** Auvergnat: fred, freid
**** Gascon: hred, hered
**** Languedocien: freg, fred (southern)
**** Limousin: fred, freid
**** Provençal: freid, fred
**** Vivaro-Alpine: freid, fred
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: fríu
** Navarro-Aragonese: fredo, frido
*** Aragonese: fredo
** Old Galician-Portuguese: frio
*** Galician: frío
*** Portuguese: frio
** Old Spanish: frido, frio
*** Spanish: frío
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: frittu
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: frígid
** → English: frigid
** → French: frigide
** → Italian: frigido
** → Portuguese: frígido
** → Romanian: frigid
** → Spanish: frígido

### 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.