gelicidium

Latin

Etymology

From gelū (“frost”) +‎ cadō (“to fall”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡe.liˈki.di.um/, [ɡɛlʲɪˈkɪd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒe.liˈt͡ʃi.di.um/, [d͡ʒeliˈt͡ʃiːd̪ium]

Noun

gelicidium n (genitive gelicidiī or gelicidī); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) frost

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gelicidium	gelicidia
Genitive	gelicidiī gelicidī1	gelicidiōrum
Dative	gelicidiō	gelicidiīs
Accusative	gelicidium	gelicidia
Ablative	gelicidiō	gelicidiīs
Vocative	gelicidium	gelicidia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: gelicidio

References

• “gelicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gelicidium 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)
• gelicidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.