- fricdus,frigdus(Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
- fridus(Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)
Fromfrīgeō(“to be cold”) +-idus.
frīgidus (femininefrīgida,neuterfrīgidum,comparativefrīgidior,superlativefrīgidissimus,adverbfrīgidē);first/second-declension adjective
- cold,cool,chilling,frigid
- Synonyms:algidus,gelidus
- Antonym:calidus
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti4.683–684:
- frīgida Carseolīs nec olīvīs apta ferendīs
terrā, sed ad segetēs ingeniōsus ager- [It was]cold in the land of Carseoli, not even fit for growing olives,
but with soil well-adapted for grain crops.
(SeeCarsoli.)
- (figuratively)indifferent,feeble
- (figuratively)dull,flat,insipid,trivial,vain
61CE –c. 112CE,
Pliny the Younger,
Epistles 1.9:
- Quot dies quamfrigidis rebus absumpsi
- How many days have I wasted throughvapid things?
First/second-declension adjective.
- Insular Romance:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- “frigidus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “frigidus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "frigidus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “frigidus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.