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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• cold (adj.):
      1. 1. frīgĭdus (the most general word: applied to all degrees, from pleasant coolness to severe cold): a fountain c. by day, warm by night, fons luce diurna f., at calidus nocturno tempore, Lucr.: c. water, aqua f., Pl.; also simply frigida, as subs.: Col.: Suet.: under the c. sky, sub Jove f., Hor.: also of things cold with age, death, etc.: c. death, f. mors Virg.: a c. shudder, f. horror, Virg. Fig.: too tame in speaking and almost c., nimis lentus in dicendo et paene f., Cic. (N.B. Frigidus as applied to words and expressions is equivalent to our flat, dull: q. v.) Very c., perfrīgĭdus: Cic.: Cels.; also, praefrīgĭdus: Ov.: Cels. To be c., frīgeo: Cic.: Pers. Prov.: Venus is c. without Ceres and Bacchus, sine Cerere et Baccho Venus friget, Ter.: hence incept. frīgesco, frixi, 3: to become c., in both lit. and fig. sense: the hands and feet become c., f. manus pedesque, Tac.: affection grows c., f. affectus, Quint.: to grow c. after being hot, refrīgesco, 3: Cato: Lucr.
      2. 2. algĭdus (i. e. so cold as to be uncomfortable: rare): Cat. To be c. or chilly, algeo, alsi, 2: to sweat and be c., sudare et a., Hor.: incept. algesco, 3: to grow c., catch cold: Ter.: Plin. N.B. The part. algens is perh. more freq. used as adj. than algidus: Mart.: Plin.
      3. 3. gĕlĭdus (ice-cold): the (junction of) the Fibrenus makes the Liris much colder, Fibrenus Lirim multo gelidiorem facit, Cic. (but g. flumen may also mean a frozen river: Virg.): c. rocks, g. rupes, Virg.: esp. of things cold with age, fright, or death: blood c. with old age, g. senecta sanguis, Virg.: c. death, g. mors, Hor.: a c. shudder, g. horror, Ov.: Virg. Very c. indeed, praegĕlĭdus: Liv.: Plin. N.B. Egĕlĭdus is also found; but as its meaning fluctuates between cold (= gelidus), and with the coldness or chill taken off ("qui de summo gelu aliquid remisit," Forc.), it is better avoided. Phr.: to give a thing c. praise, maligne laudare, Hor.