gelid

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Very cold; icy or frosty.
    Above the gelid source of mountain springs, ⁠A solitary eagle, circling, flies. 1898, Florence Earle Coates, “Siberia”, in Poems
    In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close. 2005, Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

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