froid

Inherited from Old French froit, freid, inherited from Latin frīgidus (“cold”) (through a syncopated Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form frigdus, fricdus, attested in the Appendix Probi, or fridus, on a Pompeian inscription). Doublet of frigide, a later borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /fʁwa/ ~ /fʁwɑ/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: froids

froid (feminine froide, masculine plural froids, feminine plural froides)

1. cold (temperature)

   Antonym: chaud (“warm, hot”)

• (Acadian, Louisiana, Cajun French, Quebec, Missouri, New England) frette

froid m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) cold, chill
2. (of a relationship) distance, strain

• frigide
• frileux
• frais

• Mauritian Creole: frwa

• “froid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.