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gelid (JEL-id) - adj., extremely cold, icy.
A word for February in the temperate-and-above Northern hemisphere. I live at the edge of a semi-tropical region, however, so this is a rare one for me. Coined in English in either the late 16th or early 17th centuries (dictionaries widely disagree about the first mention) from Latin gelidus, cold, from gelū, frost.
---L.
A word for February in the temperate-and-above Northern hemisphere. I live at the edge of a semi-tropical region, however, so this is a rare one for me. Coined in English in either the late 16th or early 17th centuries (dictionaries widely disagree about the first mention) from Latin gelidus, cold, from gelū, frost.
---L.
