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I learned a new word! "The gelid interior keeps any melting to a trickle." Gelid means "Very cold; icy or frosty". Google n-grams says it's used with a frequenc
by dalke 11y ago
I learned a new word! "The gelid interior keeps any melting to a trickle." Gelid means "Very cold; icy or frosty". Google n-grams says it's used with a frequency about 2-3% that of "frigid."
- cc438 11y agoThere's a company named Gelid that makes computer heatsinks and fans, they touted their German engineering so I just assumed it was a German word or family name. Know it makes more sense, neat!
- cbd1984 11y agoIt comes from the same word, gelum, Latin for frost, which also gives us "gelatin" and "gelato". "Cold", on the other hand, comes from Germanic roots (Proto-Germanic kaldaz.) They both come from the Proto-Indo-European root gel-/gol- "cold". http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cold&allowed_in_frame=0 http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cold&allowed_in_fra...
- boyaka 11y agoI had heard this word before [1]. So there were some benefits to spending all of high school playing Everquest. [1] http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=5461 http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=5461
- dalke 11y agoLike how I leaned "quaff" due to Rogue, or (to a lesser extent) how I learned to spell "anonymous" due to ftp!