froid

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Meaning

Concepts

cold

coldness

cool

chilly

chill

frigid

bleak

chilliness

frigidity

icy

frost

very cold

coolness

gelid

glacial

stony

bleakness

low temperature

cold-blooded

cold weather

arctic

polar

frigidness

coldly

nippy

shivering fit

shivers

freezing

coldheartedness

cruelty

relentless

ruthless

frozen

ice-cold

calm

fresh

slow

damp

algid

refrigeration

cutting

raw

inhuman

insensate

iciness

common cold

distant

impassive

Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fʁwa/
Etymology

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.

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