Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *sriHgos. Cognate with Ancient Greek ῥῖγος (rhîgos).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

frīgus n (genitive frīgoris); third declension

  1. cold, coldness, coolness, chilliness
    • Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 24:
      Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur
      Retarded by the cold and the continuous rains
  2. the cold of winter; winter; frost
  3. the coldness of death; death
  4. a chill, fever
  5. 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.)
  6. a cold region, place, area or spot
  7. (figuratively) inactivity, indolence, slowness
  8. (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

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Aromanian: frig
  • Megleno-Romanian: frig
  • Romanian: frig

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
  1. ^ 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

Etymology edit

From Latin frīgus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfriɡus/, [ˈfɾiː.ɣu.zŭ]

Noun edit

frigus m (uncountable)

  1. cold, coldness

Derived terms edit