gelu
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese gelo. Cognate with Guinea-Bissau Creole djelu.
Noun
gelu
- ice
Latin
Alternative forms
- gelus, gelum
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Related to English cold.
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Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡe.luː/, [ˈɡɛɫ̪uː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.lu/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːlu]
Noun
gelū n sg (genitive gelūs); fourth declension
- 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.
- 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:
- 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
- gelidus
- gelō
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: dzer
- Romanian: ger
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: gelo
- Sicilian: jelu
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: zel, zèil, ziel, zrù
- Old Ligurian: zer
- Ligurian: zêo
- Lombard: zel, gel, zeld, geld, gild
- Piedmontese: zel, zer, gèil, ger, gel
- Venetian: geło, xeło
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- French: gel
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: gel
- Occitan: gèl, gèu
- Auvergnat: gial, giau
- Limousin: giau
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: chelo
- Asturian: xelu, xilu
- Galician: xeo
- Leonese: xelu, xielu
- Spanish: hielo
- → Tagalog: yelo
- Sardinian:
- ghelu, belu, gelu
- Borrowings:
- → Old Portuguese: gelo (or perhaps from Leonese)
- Portuguese: gelo
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: djelu
- Kabuverdianu: gelu
- Portuguese: gelo
- → Old Portuguese: gelo (or perhaps from Leonese)
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
- to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
Old Saxon
Adjective
gelu
- Alternative form of gelo