Kabuverdianu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese gelo. Cognate with Guinea-Bissau Creole djelu.

Noun

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gelu

  1. ice

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (cold). Related to English cold.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    gelū n sg (genitive gelūs); fourth declension

    1. frost
      • 15th century, A nominale [with a mentioning]. In: Anglo-Saxon and old English vocabularies by Thomas Wright. Second edition. Edited and collated by Richard Paul Wülcker. Volume I: Vocabularies, London, 1884, column 736:
        Hoc gelu, indeclinabile, frost.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    2. cold, chill

    Declension

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    Fourth-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

    Case Singular
    Nominative gelū
    Genitive gelūs
    Dative gelū
    Accusative gelū
    Ablative gelū
    Vocative gelū

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    References

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    • gelu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • gelu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • gelu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
    • 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 256

    Old Saxon

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    Adjective

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    gelu

    1. Alternative form of gelo