Etymology

frigid

frig·id
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Today it means: Very cold; lacking warmth; icy. Full definition →

Latin frīgidus ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ← Proto-Italic *srīgos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sríHgos
  2. Proto-Italic*srīgos
  3. Latinfrīgus
  4. Latinfrīgeō
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  6. Latinfrīgidus
  7. English todayfrigid

Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.