frigidus

• fricdus, frigdus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
• fridus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)

From frīgeō (“to be cold”) + -idus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfriː.ɡɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfriː.d͡ʒi.dus]
• Hyphenation: frī‧gi‧dus

frīgidus (feminine frīgida, neuter frīgidum, comparative frīgidior, superlative frīgidissimus, adverb frīgidē); first/second-declension adjective

1. cold, cool, chilling, frigid

   Synonyms: algidus, gelidus

   Antonym: calidus

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.683–684:

     frīgida Carseolīs nec olīvīs apta ferendīs
     terrā, sed ad segetēs ingeniōsus ager

     [It was] cold in the land of Carseoli, not even fit for growing olives,
     but with soil well-adapted for grain crops.
     (See Carsoli.)

2. (figuratively) indifferent, feeble
3. (figuratively) dull, flat, insipid, trivial, pointless, vain
   • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Plinius Minor, Epistulae 1.9:

     Quot dies quam frigidis rebus absumpsi!

     How many days have I wasted through vapid things!

   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Gai 26:

     Leve ac frigidum sit his addere

     It would be trivial and pointless to add to this

First/second-declension adjective.

• “frigidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frigidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "frigidus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “frigidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.