gelo

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʒɛ.lu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʒɛ.lo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒɛ.lo]

gelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gelar

From Latin gelu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡelo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: ge‧lo

gelo (accusative singular gelon, plural geloj, accusative plural gelojn)

1. (weather) frost

   Synonym: frosto

• “gelo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: gè‧lo

From Latin gelū (“frost, chill”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

• gielo (archaic, dialectal)

gelo m (plural geli)

1. intense cold
2. frost
3. cold weather
4. icy water
5. coldness (lack of enthusiasm etc.)

• → Neapolitan: gelo

Form of the verb gelare (“to freeze, chill”)

gelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gelare

• gole, lego, legò

From gelū (“frost”) +‎ -ō, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Alternatively, given the lack of -u- in the verb, it may be built on the second-declension collateral form gelum, rare but attested in Varro and Lucretius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛ.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.lo]

gelō (present infinitive gelāre, perfect active gelāvī, supine gelātum); first conjugation

1. to freeze, cause to congeal
2. to frighten, petrify, cause to become rigid with fright

• congelō
• regelō

• glaciō

• “gelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gelo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256

• jélo

Borrowed from Italian gelo, from Latin gelū. The alternative form above represents the native Neapolitan outcome.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛlə/

gelo m (plural [please provide])

1. frost (on the vegetation especially)
2. cold (relatively intense cold)

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 383: “il gelo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

From Proto-West Germanic *gelu. Cognate with Old English geolu.

gelo

1. yellow

• Middle High German: gël (inflected gëlwe)
  • Alemannic German:
    • Alsatian: gahl, gäl

    Swabian: geal

  • Central Franconian: gäl, jäl, jell
  • Cimbrian: gel, ghéel (Sette Comuni)
  • German: gelb; gehl (regional)

    → Hunsrik: gelleb, kelep

  • Luxembourgish: giel
  • Pennsylvania German: gehl
  • Vilamovian: gaoł
  • Yiddish: געל (gel), געלב (gelb)

• gelu

From Proto-West Germanic *gelu. Cognate with Old English geolu.

gelo

1. yellow

• ge lo

From earlier *elielo, with a loss of initial /e/ and /lj/ fricatizing to /ʒ/, from Latin illī illum.

• IPA^(key): /ʒelo/

gelo

1. contraction of le m or f by sense (“it”, dative, literally “to it”) +‎ lo m (“it”, accusative)

   daregelo he ― I will give it to him

From Old Galician-Portuguese gelo, borrowed from Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Displaced the inherited Old Portuguese geo.

• gêlo (pre-reform spelling or misspelling)

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• Rhymes: -elu
• Hyphenation: ge‧lo

gelo m (plural gelos)

1. (uncountable) ice (frozen water)
2. a cube or chunk of ice
3. (informal) coldness; cold (low temperature)

   Synonym: frio

4. (figurative) chill (a sudden sense of fear or anxiety)
5. (figurative) coldness (lack of emotion)

   Synonym: frieza

6. (figurative) a very cool place

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: djelu
• Kabuverdianu: gelu
• → Konkani:

  Devanagari script: झेल (jhel)

  Latin script: jhel

  Kannada script: ಝೆಲ್ (jhel)

gelo (invariable)

1. whose colour is a shade of white like that of ice

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɛlu
• Hyphenation: ge‧lo

gelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gelar

• “gelo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “gelo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026