frigid
Adjektivin Dialogen belegt
- //ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪd//
Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
Adjektiv
- 1
Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
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.
- 2
Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
- 3
Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.
In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid.
Herkunft
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 *-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.
Formen
- Komparativ
- more frigid, frigider
- Superlativ
- most frigid, frigidest
frigid · Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
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