frigid
/ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.98 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A frigid, fine rain was falling."
- "Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages."
- "In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos Proto-Italic *srīgos Latin frīgus Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ējō Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin frīgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin frīgidusbor. English frigid Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *sríHgos