refrigerium

English

Etymology

From Latin refrigerium.

Noun

refrigerium

  1. (obsolete) Cooling refreshment; refrigeration.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      some of the Ancients , like kind - hearted Men , have talked much of Annual Refrigeriums , Respites , or Intervals of Punishment to the damned
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(See the entry for “refrigerium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From refrīgerō +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

refrīgerium n (genitive refrīgeriī or refrīgerī); second declension (Ecclesiastical Latin)

  1. cooling
  2. mitigation, consolation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative refrīgerium refrīgeria
genitive refrīgeriī
refrīgerī1 		refrīgeriōrum
dative refrīgeriō refrīgeriīs
accusative refrīgerium refrīgeria
ablative refrīgeriō refrīgeriīs
vocative refrīgerium refrīgeria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • English: refrigerium
  • Portuguese: refrigério
  • Spanish: refrigerio

References

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