algor

Learned borrowing from Latin algor.

algor (uncountable)

1. Cold, chilliness.
   • 1878, The Monthly Abstract of Medical Science, volume 5, page 445:

     […] with suffocation, dyspnea, cold sweats, paleness of the face, algor of the extremities, etc., […]

• algor mortis

From algeō (“I am, feel cold”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.ɡɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.ɡor]

algor m (genitive algōris); third declension

1. cold, chilliness

   Synonym: algus (ante-classical)

2. (in the plural) cold weather

The difference between frīgus and algor is that algor as "cold" indicates that the temperature is so freezing that it is pinching and uncomfortable, whereas frīgus just means "the cold" in general. The main exception is that Pliny the Elder uses algor as "cold" in general.

Third-declension noun.

• algēns
• algeō
• algidus

• English: algor mortis
• Italian: algore
• Portuguese: algor mortis

• “algor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “algor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• algor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.