frío
Asturian
Adjective
frío n sg
- neuter singular of fríu
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese frio, from Latin frīgidus. Compare Portuguese frio, Spanish frío, Asturian fríu. Doublet of fríxido, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɾiʊ]
Adjective
frío m (feminine singular fría, masculine plural fríos, feminine plural frías)
- cold
Spanish
Alternative forms
- fredo (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾio/ [ˈfɾi.o]
- Rhymes: -io
- Syllabification: frí‧o
Etymology 1
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 *sriHgos-, *sriges-, *sriHges-. 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[1]. It is from this form that most Romance descendants arose (e.g. Catalan fred, French froid, Italian freddo). Compare also the borrowed doublet frígido.
Adjective
frío (feminine fría, masculine plural fríos, feminine plural frías)
- cold (having a low temperature)
- Antonym: caliente
- (of a color) cool
- Antonym: cálido
- cold (unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling)
- cool (of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself)
Derived terms
- a sangre fría
- avefría
- bala fría
- cadena de frío
- caer como un baldado de agua fría
- en frío
- fiambre
- frente frío
- fríamente
- friera
- friísimo
- gota fría
- guerra fría
- la venganza es un plato que se sirve frío
- sangre fría
- sudor frío
Related terms
- frialdad
- frígido
- frigoría
- frigorífico
- friolento
- friolento
- friolero
- frior
- friura
Noun
frío m (plural fríos)
- cold, coldness (a condition of low temperature)
- Antonym: calor
- Había nevado tanto que el frío quemaba en la montaña.
- It had snowed so much that it was freezing by the mountain.
- (literally, “It had snowed so much that the cold was burning by the mountain.”)
Verb
frío
- first-person singular present indicative of freír
References
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
- “frío”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014