frigide

frigide

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʁi.ʒid/
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)

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
    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(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[1] (in German)

    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.