frío

Meaning

Adj

1. cold (having a low temperature)
2. cool
3. cold (unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling)
4. cool (of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself)

Noun

cold, coldness (a condition of low temperature)

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of freír

Hyphenated as

frí‧o

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɾio/

Etymology

This form derives from Old Spanish frio, from Latin frīgidus (“cold”) (by natural sound changes through a hypothetical intermediate early Ibero-Romance or proto-Spanish form *friyio), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos. See also the variant Old Spanish form frido, which came instead from a Vulgar or Late Latin form fridus (attested in some Pompeian inscriptions), from frigdus, fricdus (attested in the Appendix Probi), syncopated form of frīgidus. It is from this form that most Romance descendants arose (e.g. Catalan fred, French froid, Italian freddo). Compare also the borrowed doublet frígido. Cognate with English frigid.

Sentences

Abril frío , poco pan y poco vino .

Cold April, little bread and little wine.

El mes más frío es enero y el más caluroso es agosto .

The coldest month is January and the hottest is August.