refrigerium
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
refrigerium
- (obsolete) Cooling refreshment; refrigeration.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
- some of the Ancients , like kind - hearted Men , have talked much of Annual Refrigeriums , Respites , or Intervals of Punishment to the damned
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “refrigerium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Noun edit
refrīgerium n (genitive refrīgeriī or refrīgerī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | refrīgerium | refrīgeria |
| Genitive | refrīgeriī refrīgerī1 |
refrīgeriōrum |
| Dative | refrīgeriō | refrīgeriīs |
| Accusative | refrīgerium | refrīgeria |
| Ablative | refrīgeriō | refrīgeriīs |
| Vocative | refrīgerium | refrīgeria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- English: refrigerium
- Portuguese: refrigério
- Spanish: refrigerio
References edit
- “refrigerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- refrigerium 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)
- refrigerium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.