Etymology

First attested in 1630. From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#GELID gelidus (“cold”)Category:English undefined derivations#GELID, from gelu (“frost”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛl.ɪd/Category:English 2-syllable words#GELIDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GELID
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛl.əd/Category:English 2-syllable words#GELIDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GELID

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

gelid (comparative more gelid, superlative most gelid)Category:English lemmas#GELIDCategory:English adjectives#GELIDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GELIDCategory:Pages with entries#GELIDCategory:Pages with 3 entries#GELID

1. (literaryCategory:English literary terms#GELID) Very cold; icy or frosty; frigid.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     Of Cassandra-Marat we have spoken often; yet the most surprising truth remains to be spoken: that he actually does not want sense; but, with croaking gelid throat, croaks out masses of the truth, on several things.

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   • 1898, Florence Earle Coates, “Siberia”, in Poems:

     Above the gelid source of mountain springs,
     ⁠A solitary eagle, circling, flies.

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   • 2005, Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams:

     In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close.

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   • 2008, David Szalay, London and the South-East:

     For a while he stares out of the window. It is twilight - cold, deepening twilight. Over the roofs of the opposite house-backs, two garden lengths away, the sky is gelid, luminous, sad. A quiet albescent yellow. Everything is very still.

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Anagrams

• Glide, glide, lidge, liged

Etymology

From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#GELIDCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#GELID gelit; cognate with German Glied. By surface analysis, ge- +‎ lidCategory:Dutch terms prefixed with ge-#LID.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣəˈlɪt/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#GELID

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  Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#GELID
• Hyphenation: ge‧lid
• Rhymes: -ɪtCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɪt#GELIDCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɪt/2 syllables#GELID

Noun

gelid n (plural gelederen, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#GELIDCategory:Dutch nouns#GELIDCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -eren#GELIDCategory:Dutch nouns with lengthened vowel in the plural#GELIDCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#GELIDCategory:Dutch neuter nouns#GELIDCategory:Pages with entries#GELIDCategory:Pages with 3 entries#GELID

1. row of a formation, battle line
2. an organizational rank, especially a military rank

Noun

gelid n (plural geleden, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#GELIDCategory:Dutch nouns#GELIDCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#GELIDCategory:Dutch nouns with lengthened vowel in the plural#GELIDCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#GELIDCategory:Dutch neuter nouns#GELIDCategory:Pages with entries#GELIDCategory:Pages with 3 entries#GELID

1. a joint, a point of articulation

Anagrams

• gilde, ledig

Etymology

From Proto-CelticCategory:Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic#GELIDCategory:Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic#GELID *gʷeleti (“to graze”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#GELID *gʷlew-, extension from *gʷel- (“throat”),^[1] which could be imitativeCategory:Old Irish onomatopoeias#GELID. See also Old English ceole, German Kehle, Proto-Slavic *glъtati (“to devour”).^[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʲe.lʲəðʲ/Category:Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation#GELID
  • (Blasse) [ˈɡʲe.lʲɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈɡʲe.lʲɨðʲ]

Verb

gelid (conjunct ·geil, verbal noun gelt)Category:Old Irish lemmas#GELIDCategory:Old Irish verbs#GELIDCategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#GELIDCategory:Pages with entries#GELIDCategory:Pages with 3 entries#GELID

1. to graze, consume
   • c. 700, De Origine Scoticae Linguae from the Yellow Book of Lecan, O'Mulc. 830

     Ron·geilt in gaeth feib geilius [nem]aod forderg fidnime [leg. fidnaige].

     The storm has consumed us [lit. grazed on] like heavenly red fire consumes [lit. grazes on] firewood.

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   • c. 800, Immacaldam Choluim Cille ⁊ ind óclaig, published in "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts: Immacaldam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig oc Carraic Eolairg and Immacaldam in Druad Brain 7 Inna Banḟátho Febuil Ós Loch Ḟebuil", Ériu 52 (2002), pp. 53-87, edited and with translations by John Carey,

     "Cesc," ol Colum Cille, "cóich robo riam, a lloch-sa at·chiam?" Respondit iuvenis: "Ro·fetur-sa aní-sin; [...] ra·giult-sa [MS ro·diultsa] a mbasa os, ra·senas a mbasa é[o]...

     "A question," said Colum Cille, "whose was it formerly, this loch we see?" The youth responded, "I know that! [...] I had grazed it when I was a stag, I had swum it when I was a salmon...

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   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 80^a11

     géldae ― glosses Latin depastus estCategory:Old Irish terms with quotations#GELID

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 143^b1

     gelid ― glosses Latin depasciturCategory:Old Irish terms with quotations#GELID

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gelid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language