frigid

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“I am cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sriges-, *sriHges-.

• enPR: frĭj'ĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪd

frigid (comparative more frigid or frigider, superlative most frigid or frigidest)

1. Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, OCLC 1023879857, page 427:

     A frigid, fine rain was falling.

   • 2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, page 98:

     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. (colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

• fervid

• frigid zone
• frigidity
• frigidly
• frigidness

• frigid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• frigid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

frigid

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• frigiditet

• “frigid” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): [fʁiˈɡiːt]
• Hyphenation: fri‧git

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

1. Alternative form of frigide

• “frigid” in Duden online
• “frigid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from French frigide, Latin frigidus. See also frig.

frigid m or n (feminine singular frigidă, masculine plural frigizi, feminine and neuter plural frigide)

1. frigid

• frigiditate
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