arrecir

From Vulgar Latin arrigēscĕre (“to become stiff”), from Latin arrigĕre (“raise; rouse, excite”). According to Coromines and Pascual, this infinitive arrecir "barely exists" (apenas existe), and prefer to link the adjective arrecido to a supposed verb *arreeçer, of the same etymology, cognate with Galician arrecerse (“get a common cold; become numb”).

• IPA^(key): /areˈθiɾ/ [a.reˈθiɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /areˈsiɾ/ [a.reˈsiɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rre‧cir

arrecir (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite arrecí, past participle arrecido)

1. (transitive) to make something/someone numb with cold
2. (reflexive) to become numbed by cold, to be numbed by cold

• Used only with forms where the ending begins with -i.

• “arrecir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “recio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 823