See also: gelò and gêlo

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gelo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gelar

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Etymology

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From Latin gelu.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɡelo]
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Hyphenation: ge‧lo

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gelo (accusative singular gelon, plural geloj, accusative plural gelojn)

  1. (weather) frost
    Synonym: frosto

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  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlo
  • Hyphenation: gè‧lo

Etymology 1

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From Latin gelū (frost, chill), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (cold).

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gelo m (plural geli)

  1. intense cold
  2. frost
  3. cold weather
  4. icy water
  5. coldness (lack of enthusiasm etc.)
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  • Neapolitan: gelo

Etymology 2

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Form of the verb gelare (to freeze, chill)

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gelo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gelare

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From gelū (frost) +‎ , from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (cold). Cognate with Ancient Greek γελανδρόν (gelandrón).

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    gelō (present infinitive gelāre, perfect active gelāvī, future participle gelātūrus); first conjugation

    1. to freeze, cause to congeal
    2. to frighten, petrify, cause to become rigid with fright

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    References

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    • gelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • gelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • gelo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256

    Neapolitan

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    Borrowed from Italian gelo, from Latin gelū. The alternative form above represents the native Neapolitan outcome.

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    gelo m (plural [please provide])

    1. frost (on the vegetation especially)
    2. cold (relatively intense cold)

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    • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 383: “il gelo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

    Old High German

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    From Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, whence also Old English geolu.

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    gelo

    1. yellow

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    Old Saxon

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    From Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, whence also Old English geolu.

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    gelo

    1. yellow

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    Portuguese

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Galician-Portuguese gelo, borrowed from Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (cold). Displaced the inherited Old Portuguese geo.

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    • Hyphenation: ge‧lo

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    gelo m (plural gelos)

    1. (uncountable) ice (frozen water)
    2. a cube or chunk of ice
    3. (informal) coldness; cold (low temperature)
      Synonym: frio
    4. (figurative) chill (a sudden sense of fear or anxiety)
    5. (figurative) coldness (lack of emotion)
      Synonym: frieza
    6. (figurative) a very cool place
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    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: djelu
    • Kabuverdianu: gelu

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    gelo (invariable)

    1. whose colour is a shade of white like that of ice

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    • Hyphenation: ge‧lo

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    gelo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of gelar