different between algid vs gelid

English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin algidus (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?l?j?d, IPA^(key): /?æl.d??d/

Adjective

algid (comparative more algid, superlative most algid)

1. (medicine) Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
   • 1875 March 15, J. C. Morgan, More on Typho-Malarial Fever, United States Medical Investigator, New Series, Volume 1, No. 6, page 261,

     […] with cold sweat, blueness, stupidity, no heat, no sort of reaction or remission, intense venous congestion in divers organs, getting steadily worse and worse, more and more algid, wet, and stupid, with death in thirty-six hours.

   • 2002, Eduardo Ibarro-Caldo, Chapter 8: Organizational paradoxes and business ethics: In search of new modes of existence, Stewart Clegg (editor), Management and Organization Paradoxes, page 268,

     The coldest, most algid moments of this savage industrialization, commanded by the Robber Barons (Josephson 1962), were featured in a recent book on the expansionary experience of the railroads, which by 1900, had already built 193,000 miles of track:

Derived terms

• algidity

Translations

Further reading

• “algid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Lagid

Estonian

Noun

algid

1. nominative plural of alk

Livonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?id/

Verb

algid

1. second person plural imperative form of the negation verb
   • Ren?te Blumberga, Tapio Mäkeläinen, Karl Pajusalu (2013), L?bieši: v?sture, valoda un kult?ra, R?ga: L?võ Kult?r sid?m, ?ISBN

     algid ?ndagid!

     don't give!

     algid likkõgid!

     don't move!

See also

• äb-
• äb
• äd
• ät
• izt
• iz
• al?
• algõ
• algõm
• algõd

Romanian

Etymology

From French algide

Adjective

algid m or n (feminine singular algid?, masculine plural algizi, feminine and neuter plural algide)

1. algid

Declension

Related terms

• algiditate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1630. From Latin gelidus (“cold”), from gelu (“frost”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?d??l.?d/

Adjective

gelid (comparative more gelid, superlative most gelid)

1. Very cold; icy or frosty.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Of Cassandra-Marat we have spoken often; yet the most surprising truth remains to be spoken: that he actually does not want sense; but, with croaking gelid throat, croaks out masses of the truth, on several things.

   • 1898, Florence Earle Coates, Siberia

     Above the gelid source of mountain springs,
     ?A solitary eagle, circling, flies.

   • 2005, Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams:

     In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close.

Derived terms

• gelidity / gelidness
• gelidly

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• glide, lidge, liged

Dutch

Etymology

From ge- +? lid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l?t/
• Hyphenation: ge?lid
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gelid n (plural gelederen)

1. row of a formation, battle line
2. an organizational rank, especially a military rank

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gelid

Noun

gelid n (plural geleden)

1. a joint, a point of articulation

Anagrams

• gilde, ledig

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *g?eleti (“to graze”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *g?lew-, extension from *g?el- (“throat”), which could be imitative. See also Old English ceole, German Kehle, Proto-Slavic *gl?tati (“to devour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e.l??ð/

Verb

gelid (conjunct ·geil, verbal noun gelt)

1. to graze, consume
   • c. 700, De Origine Scoticae Linguae from the Yellow Book of Lecan, O'Mulc. 830

   • c. 800, Immacaldam Choluim Cille ? ind óclaig, published in "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts: Immacaldam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig oc Carraic Eolairg and Immacaldam in Druad Brain 7 Inna Ban?átho Febuil Ós Loch ?ebuil", Ériu 52 (2002), pp. 53-87, edited and with translations by John Carey,

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 80^a11

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 143^b1

Inflection

Derived terms

• con·geil
• fo·geil

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gelid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language