The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκρυμός“cold, chilliness”
- English todayisocryme
From iso- + Ancient Greek κρυμός (krumós, “cold, chilliness”) (see κρύος (krúos)). Coined by James D. Dana in 1854, who glossed κρυμός as "extreme cold".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.