The story
- Latin · borrowed fromrefrigerō“to make cold”
- English todayrefrigerate
From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.
Words from the same roots
Latinrefrigerō all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
refrigerate
Today it means: To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down. Full definition →
Latin refrigerō