fred

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Meaning

cold, cool

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈfɾɛt]

Inherited from Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus, attested in a Pompeian inscription, or frigdus, fricdus, in the Appendix Probi; compare Occitan fred/freid/freg, French froid, Italian freddo, Spanish frío), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).