gelu

From Portuguese gelo. Cognate with Guinea-Bissau Creole djelu.

gelu

1. ice

• gelus, gelum

From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Related to English cold.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛ.ɫuː], [ˈɡɛ.ɫʊ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.lu]

gelū̆ n sg (genitive gelūs or gelū); fourth declension

1. frost
   • 15th century, A nominale [with a mentioning]. In: Anglo-Saxon and old English vocabularies by Thomas Wright. Second edition. Edited and collated by Richard Paul Wülcker. Volume I: Vocabularies, London, 1884, column 736:

     Hoc gelu, indeclinabile, frost.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. cold, chill

Fourth-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

¹The length of the final vowel is uncertain in the nominative/accusative/vocative singular; Martianus Capella considers it to end with -ū, while Servius considers it to end with -ŭ.
²According to Martianus Capella.
³According to Servius.
⁴According to both.

• gelidus
• gelō

• “gelu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gelu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gelu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
    

gelu

1. alternative form of gelo