frigide

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus. Doublet of froid, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʁi.ʒid/
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Adjective

frigide (plural frigides)

  1. frigid (very cold)
  2. frigid (unable to take part in sexual intercourse)

Further reading

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fʁiˈɡiːdə]
  • Hyphenation: fri‧gi‧de
  • (file)

Adjective

frigide (strong nominative masculine singular frigider, comparative frigider, superlative am frigidesten)

  1. (medicine) frigid (unable to take part in sexual intercourse)
  2. (rare) frigid (very cold)

Declension

Further reading

  • frigide” in Duden online
  • frigide” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfri.ɡi.de/

Adjective

frigide

  1. cold

Antonyms

Italian

Adjective

frigide f pl

  1. feminine plural of frigido

Latin

Adjective

frīgide

  1. vocative masculine singular of frīgidus

Adverb

frīgidē (comparative frīgidius, superlative frīgidissimē)

  1. coldly, coolly, frigidly

References

  • frigide”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • frigide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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