frigus

From Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos. Cognate with Ancient Greek ῥῖγος (rhîgos).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfriː.ɡus/, [ˈfriːɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfri.ɡus/, [ˈfriːɡus]

frīgus n (genitive frīgoris); third declension

1. cold, coldness, coolness, chilliness
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.24:

     Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur

     Retarded by the cold and the continuous rains

2. the cold of winter; winter; frost
3. the coldness of death; death
4. a chill, fever
5. a cold shudder which is produced by fear
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.92:

     Extemplō Aenēae solvuntur frīgore membra.

     Forthwith for Aeneas, [his] limbs are weakened by the chill of fear.
     (The epic hero first appears in line 92 where the Latin “Aeneae” is a dative of reference. Here and in subsequent lines, Aeneas’s expression of heroic emotion echoes a speech by Odysseus in Book 5 of the Odyssey.)

6. a cold region, place, area or spot
7. (figuratively) inactivity, indolence, slowness
8. (figuratively) a cold reception, indifference

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• Aromanian: frig
• Megleno-Romanian: frig
• Romanian: frig

• “frigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frigus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• frigus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • temperate climate: aer calore et frigore temperatus
    
  • the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
    
  • to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
    
  • to freeze to death: frigore confici
    
  • to be able to bear heat and cold: aestus et frigoris patientem esse
    

From Latin frīgus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriɡus/, [ˈfɾiː.ɣu.zŭ]

frigus m (uncountable)

1. cold, coldness

• frighidu, frittu