gelu
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Related to English cold.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡe.luː/, [ˈɡɛɫ̪uː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.lu/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːlu]
Noun
gelū n sg (genitive gelūs); fourth declension
- frost
- 15th century, A nominale [with a mentioning]. In: Anglo-Saxon and old English vocabularies by Thomas Wright. Second edition. Edited and collated by Richard Paul Wülcker. Volume I: Vocabularies, London, 1884, column 736:
- Hoc gelu, indeclinabile, frost.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 15th century, A nominale [with a mentioning]. In: Anglo-Saxon and old English vocabularies by Thomas Wright. Second edition. Edited and collated by Richard Paul Wülcker. Volume I: Vocabularies, London, 1884, column 736:
- cold, chill
Declension
Fourth-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | gelū |
| Genitive | gelūs |
| Dative | gelū |
| Accusative | gelū |
| Ablative | gelū |
| Vocative | gelū |
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- French: gel
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Borrowings:
References
- “gelu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gelu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gelu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
- to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
- 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 256
Old Saxon
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