Adjective: frigid
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | frigider |
| Superlative | frigidest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more frigid |
| Superlative | most frigid |
Sample Sentences
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A frigid, fine rain was falling. [1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 427:]
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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. [2013 March 26, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016, page 98:]
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In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 125:]
Adjectives inflected like frigid
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos
3. Proto-Italic *srīgos
4. Latin frīgus
5. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
7. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
8. Proto-Italic *-ēō
9. Latin -eō
10. Latin frīgeō
11. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
12. Proto-Italic *-iðos
13. Latin -idus
14. Latin frīgidusbor.
15. English frigid
16. Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos. See: Latin Adjectives '
frīgidus'.
Verbs referencing "frigid"
Spanish Adjectives
frío, Spanish Adjectives
frígido.