álgido
See also: algido
Portuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin algidus (“very cold”). See also Spanish álgido, Italian algente (“cold (poetic)”) and English algor.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ál‧gi‧do
Adjective
editálgido (feminine álgida, masculine plural álgidos, feminine plural álgidas)
- (poetic, literary) ice-cold
- 1920, Camilo Pessanha, “Passou o outono já, já torna o frio”, in Clepsydra:
- Passou o outono já, já torna o frio… / —Outono do seu riso maguado. / Algido inverno! Obliquo o sol, gelado… / —O sol, e as aguas limpidas do rio.
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- 2010 July 10, Humberto Lopes, “Noite nos Andes”, in Público[1]:
- O vento álgido sibila em todos os cantos: nas paredes de barro da igreja de San Juan, na frígida Pampa de Chalviri, na fronteira chilena do vulcão Licancábur, na solidão do deserto do Siloli, no refúgio de Alota, no Valle de las Rocas, […]
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- (medicine) algid
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “álgido”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “álgido”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin algidus (“very cold”), used in medical and poetic senses to describe coldness and stiffness. The figurative sense is perhaps derived from the frequently fatal algid stage of a fever (characterized by coldness as a result of shock).
See also Italian algente (“cold”) and English algor.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editálgido (feminine álgida, masculine plural álgidos, feminine plural álgidas)
- (figurative) decisive, critical, pivotal (of a moment or event)
- Synonyms: crítico, culminante
- 2011 May 28, “Alemania eleva a 10 los muertos por el brote infeccioso”, in El País[2]:
- Las autoridades sanitarias alemanas destacaron que aún no se ha alcanzado el punto álgido de la infección, por lo que instaron a los ciudadanos, especialmente en el norte del país—donde se han producido la gran mayoría de casos—a extremar las medidas de higiene.
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- very cold
- 1921, Emilio Bobadilla, “¡Es la guerra!”, in Rojeces de Marte:
- Un cielo heterodermo, álgido el aire; / los campos dormilentos y vacíos; / una luna tamaña de un albaire, / sin labriegos los tristes caseríos.
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- (medicine) algid (low body temperature in connection with certain diseases)
- (Can we date this quote?), Arturo Reyes, La bravía:
- Rosario, el día en que abandonara el lecho, sentóse a la puerta del edificio a respirar la perfumante brisa de aquella tarde de otoño: la dolencia había dejado en su persona sus huellas pálidas; su tez estaba descolorida; su cuerpo enjuto y falto de curvaturas; su pelo, antes abundante y negrísimo, había sido amputado en el período álgido de la fiebre que habíala tenido durante tantos días con vistas al Camposanto.
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Derived terms
editReferences
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Further reading
edit- “álgido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Rhymes:Spanish/alxido
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