FROST Copy link • FROSTgelu (cold, as causing things to freeze, only used in the ablative): gelatio (the frost, inasmuch as it penetrates the soil, etc.): gelicidium (the frost, inasmuch as it turns liquids into ice): frigora, um (frost or frosty weather). To suffer from frost, gelicidio infestari (of plants, etc.): that cannot bear the frost, frigoris impatiens: algoris non patiens: not to be able to bear the frost, frigora non facile tolerare: to be able to bear frost, algoris patientem esse: to be stiff from frost, frigore rigere (of the soil); gelu torpere (to be benumbed, of persons): a severe frost followed, magna gelatio consecuta est: to leave anything exposed to the frost, rem relinquere ad gelicidium retectam (Varr., R.R., 1, 52, 2). Hoar-frost, Vid: FROST-BITTEN, gelu rigens (Phaedrus, of a snake): praerigens (Tac.): His hands were so frost-bitten, that they actually fell off, ita praeriguere (militis) manus, ut truncis brachiis deciderent (Tac., Ann., 13, 35, 4).