frido

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrido/
• Rhymes: -ido
• Hyphenation: fri‧do

Noun

frido (uncountable, accusative fridon)

1. (poetic, in compounds, neologism) cold (low temperature)

   Synonym: malvarmo

   Antonym: varmo

   • 1895, “Injeto ĉe la ŝpinilo”, in Odd Tangerud, transl., La Montarino‎, translation of Haugtussa by Arne Garborg:

     Ho — hu! La veteraĉo / kun pluv’ kaj venta frid’!

     Oh — boo! The awful weather with rain and windy cold!

Related terms

• frida (“cold”, adjective)
• fride (“coldly”)
• frideco (“coldness”)
• fridi (“to be cold”)

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin frīgidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a syncopated Vulgar Latin form *frigdus, fricdus), from frīgeō, frīgēre (“be cold”).

Adjective

frido

1. cold