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algid en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈæl.d͡ʒɪd/
• (Southern-England) audio
• ălʹjĭd

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin algeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin algidusbor. English algid Borrowed from Latin algidus (“cold”).

Meanings

1. Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature, especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
   • Having such a large amount of skin touching the glass (her feet and her rear) while it grew more and more algid was getting to be quite arrestive. 2013, Troy Theisen, House of Dred, page 194:
   • The coldest, most algid moments of this savage industrialization, commanded by the Robber Barons (Josephson 1962), were featured in a recent book on the expansionary experience of the railroads, which by 1900, had already built 193,000 miles of track: 2002, Eduardo Ibarro-Caldo, “Chapter 8: Organizational paradoxes and business ethics: In search of new modes of existence”, in Stewart Clegg, editor, Management and Organization Paradoxes, page 268:
   • 1875 March 15, J. C. Morgan, More on Typho-Malarial Fever, United States Medical Investigator, New Series, Volume 1, No. 6, page 261, […] with cold sweat, blueness, stupidity, no heat, no sort of reaction or remission, intense venous congestion in divers organs, getting steadily worse and worse, more and more algid, wet, and stupid, with death in thirty-six hours.
   • algid malaria

Forms

Deriveds

algidness · algidity

Translations (17)

fi alilämpöinen (cold, chilly) · ru ледяно́й (cold, chilly) · cs prochladlý (cold, chilly) · fr algide (cold, chilly) · es algente (cold, chilly) · sv kall (cold, chilly) · ru холо́дный (cold, chilly) · sv kylig (cold, chilly) · it algido (cold, chilly) · es álgido (cold, chilly) · bg студе́н (cold, chilly) · pt álgido (cold, chilly) · de kalt (cold, chilly) · nl kil (cold, chilly) · ca àlgid (cold, chilly) · nl koud (cold, chilly) · fr froid (cold, chilly)