frigus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *sriHgos. Cognate with Ancient Greek ῥῖγος (rhîgos).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfriː.ɡus/, [ˈfriːɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfri.ɡus/, [ˈfriːɡus]
Noun edit
frīgus n (genitive frīgoris); third declension
- cold, coldness, coolness, chilliness
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 24:
- Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur
- Retarded by the cold and the continuous rains
- Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur
- the cold of winter; winter; frost
- the coldness of death; death
- a chill, fever
- a cold shudder which is produced by fear
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.92:
- Extemplō Aenēae solvuntur frīgore membra.
- Forthwith for Aeneas, [his] limbs are weakened by the chill of fear.
(The epic hero first appears in line 92 where the Latin “Aeneae” is a dative of reference. Here and in subsequent lines, Aeneas’s expression of heroic emotion echoes a speech by Odysseus in Book 5 of the Odyssey.)
- Forthwith for Aeneas, [his] limbs are weakened by the chill of fear.
- Extemplō Aenēae solvuntur frīgore membra.
- a cold region, place, area or spot
- (figuratively) inactivity, indolence, slowness
- (figuratively) a cold reception, indifference
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | frīgus | frīgora |
Genitive | frīgoris | frīgorum |
Dative | frīgorī | frīgoribus |
Accusative | frīgus | frīgora |
Ablative | frīgore | frīgoribus |
Vocative | frīgus | frīgora |
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References edit
- “frigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “frigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frigus 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)
- frigus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- temperate climate: aer calore et frigore temperatus
- the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
- to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
- to freeze to death: frigore confici
- to be able to bear heat and cold: aestus et frigoris patientem esse
- temperate climate: aer calore et frigore temperatus
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
Sardinian edit
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Noun edit
frigus m (uncountable)