froid

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French froit, freid, inherited from Latin frīgidus (“cold”) (through a syncopated Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form frigdus, fricdus, attested in the Appendix Probi, or fridus, on a Pompeian inscription). Doublet of frigide, a later borrowing.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /fʁwɑ/

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AdjectiveEdit

froid (feminine singular froide, masculine plural froids, feminine plural froides)

1. cold (temperature)

NounEdit

froid m (uncountable)

1. (medicine) cold, chill
2. (of a relationship) distance, strain

AntonymsEdit

• (cold): chaud (“warm, hot”)

Derived termsEdit

• avoir froid (“to be cold (of a person)”)
• faire froid (“to be cold (of the weather)”)
• froidir (“to cool”)

• froideur
• froidure
• chat échaudé craint l'eau froide (“once bitten, twice shy”)

Related termsEdit

• frigide
• frileux

Further readingEdit

• “froid” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).