froid

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

cold (temperature)

Noun

1. cold, chill
2. distance, strain

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fʁwa/

Etimologie (Engels)

Inherited from Old French froit, freid, inherited from Latin frīgidus (“cold”) (through a syncopated Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form frigdus, fricdus, attested in the Appendix Probi, or fridus, on a Pompeian inscription). Doublet of frigide, a later borrowing.