gélido

Learned borrowing from Latin gelidus (“cold”), from gelū (“frost; chill”).

• Hyphenation: gé‧li‧do

gélido (feminine gélida, masculine plural gélidos, feminine plural gélidas)

1. gelid (very cold)

   Synonym: congelante

2. (figurative) cold (emotionally distant)

   Synonyms: frio, distante

From Latin gelidus (“cold”), from gelū (“frost; chill”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxelido/ [ˈxe.li.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -elido
• Syllabification: gé‧li‧do

gélido (feminine gélida, masculine plural gélidos, feminine plural gélidas)

1. gelid, frosty (temperature)
2. distant (of a person)

• “gélido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28