gelu

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese gelo. Cognate with Guinea-Bissau Creole djelu.

Noun

gelu

  1. ice

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Related to English cold.

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Pronunciation

Noun

gelū n sg (genitive gelūs); fourth declension

  1. 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.
  2. cold, chill

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative gelū
Genitive gelūs
Dative gelū
Accusative gelū
Ablative gelū
Vocative gelū

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: dzer
    • Romanian: ger
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: gel
    • Occitan: gèl, gèu
      Auvergnat: gial, giau
      Limousin: giau
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Sardinian:
  • Borrowings:
    • → Old Portuguese: gelo (or perhaps from Leonese)
      • Portuguese: gelo (see there for further descendants)

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

Old Saxon

Adjective

gelu

  1. Alternative form of gelo
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