frigus

Latin

frīgus n (genitive frīgoris); third declension

cold, coldness, coolness, chilliness
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.24:
  Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur
  Retarded by the cold and the continuous rains
the cold of winter; winter; frost
the coldness of death; death
a chill, fever
a cold shudder which is produced by fear
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.92:
  Extemplō Aenēae solvuntur frīgore membra.
  Forthwith for Aeneas, [his] limbs are weakened by the chill of fear.
  (The epic hero first appears in line 92 where the Latin “Aeneae” is a dative of reference. Here and in subsequent lines, Aeneas’s expression of heroic emotion echoes a speech by Odysseus in Book 5 of the Odyssey.)
a cold region, place, area or spot
(figuratively) inactivity, indolence, slowness
(figuratively) a cold reception, indifference

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

“frigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“frigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"frigus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“frigus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- temperate climate: aer calore et frigore temperatus
- the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
- to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
- to freeze to death: frigore confici
- to be able to bear heat and cold: aestus et frigoris patientem esse

^ 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 243

frigus m (uncountable)