gelee

From the French gelée. Doublet of jelly.

• gelée

gelee (plural gelees)

1. Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.

gelee (plural gelees)

1. Alternative form of gele (“type of women’s headwrap”)

• Elgee

• IPA^(key): /ɣəˈleː/
• Hyphenation: ge‧lee
• Rhymes: -eː

gelee

1. Apocopic form of geleden

gelee

1. Alternative form of gele

• gelede
• jallee, jaleie, jalee
• gelé, geley, geleye, giellee

From Early Medieval Latin gelāta, derived from Latin gelāre. By surface analysis, geler +‎ -ee. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese geada.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈleːðə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈleːə/, /d͡ʒa-/

gelee oblique singular, f (oblique plural gelees, nominative singular gelee, nominative plural gelees)

1. cold spell; period of coldness

• gelee on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gĕlāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 86