gelicidium

== Latin == === Etymology === From gelū (“frost”) + cadō (“to fall”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡɛ.lɪˈkɪ.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d͡ʒe.liˈt͡ʃiː.di.um] === Noun === gelicidium n (genitive gelicidiī or gelicidī); second declension (chiefly in the plural) frost ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== Italian: gelicidio === References === “gelicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "gelicidium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “gelicidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.