Kabuverdianu edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

gelu

  1. ice

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Fourth-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

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

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit


References edit

  • 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

Old Saxon edit

Adjective edit

gelu

  1. Alternative form of gelo