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gelid

Meaningicy

Common meaning: icy cold

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GAL‘freeze, be cold’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 99, p. 733 · scan
  2. Latingelū‘frost, icy cold’
  3. Englishgelid‘icy cold’ · today

gel also in: gelatinejellycongeal

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin gelū ‘frost, icy cold’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry gelū, p. 804 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry JELLY, p. 306 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • gelū Latin “frost, icy cold”

Related words

congealgelatinejelly

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