gelo
التعريفات والمعاني
== Catalan ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈʒe̞.lu]
IPA(key): (Balearic, Northwestern) [ˈʒɛ.lo]
IPA(key): (Central) [ˈʒɛ.lu]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒɛ.lo]
=== Verb ===
gelo
first-person singular present indicative of gelar
== Esperanto ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin gelu.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈɡelo/
Rhymes: -elo
Syllabification: ge‧lo
=== Noun ===
gelo (accusative singular gelon, plural geloj, accusative plural gelojn)
(weather) frost
Synonym: frosto
=== Further reading ===
“gelo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
== Italian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.lo/
Rhymes: -ɛlo
Hyphenation: gè‧lo
=== Etymology 1 ===
From Latin gelū (“frost, chill”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
==== Alternative forms ====
gielo (archaic, dialectal)
==== Noun ====
gelo m (plural geli)
intense cold
frost
cold weather
icy water
coldness (lack of enthusiasm etc.)
===== Related terms =====
===== Descendants =====
→ Neapolitan: gelo
=== Etymology 2 ===
Form of the verb gelare (“to freeze, chill”)
==== Verb ====
gelo
first-person singular present indicative of gelare
=== Anagrams ===
gole, lego, legò
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From gelū (“frost”) + -ō, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Alternatively, given the lack of -u- in the verb, it may be built on the second-declension collateral form gelum, rare but attested in Varro and Lucretius.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡɛ.ɫoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.lo]
=== Verb ===
gelō (present infinitive gelāre, perfect active gelāvī, supine gelātum); first conjugation
to freeze, cause to congeal
to frighten, petrify, cause to become rigid with fright
==== Conjugation ====
==== Derived terms ====
congelō
regelō
==== Descendants ====
==== See also ====
glaciō
=== References ===
“gelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“gelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“gelo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
== Neapolitan ==
=== Alternative forms ===
jélo
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Italian gelo, from Latin gelū. The alternative form above represents the native Neapolitan outcome.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛlə/
=== Noun ===
gelo m (plural [please provide])
frost (on the vegetation especially)
cold (relatively intense cold)
=== References ===
AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 383: “il gelo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
== Old High German ==
=== Alternative forms ===
kelo
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-West Germanic *gelu. Cognate with Old English geolu.
=== Adjective ===
gelo
yellow
==== Declension ====
==== Descendants ====
Middle High German: gël (inflected gëlwe)
Alemannic German:
Alsatian: gahl, gäl
Swabian: geal
Central Franconian: gäl, jäl, jell
Cimbrian: gel, ghéel (Sette Comuni)
German: gelb; gehl (regional)
→ Hunsrik: gelleb, kelep
Luxembourgish: giel
Pennsylvania German: gehl
Vilamovian: gaoł
Yiddish: געל (gel), געלב (gelb)
=== See also ===
=== See further ===
Karg-Gasterstädt, Elisabeth; Frings, Theodor; et al., editors (1952–2022), “gelo”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch[1] (in German), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, via Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
== Old Saxon ==
=== Alternative forms ===
gelu
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-West Germanic *gelu. Cognate with Old English geolu.
=== Adjective ===
gelo
yellow
==== Declension ====
==== Descendants ====
== Old Spanish ==
=== Alternative forms ===
ge lo
=== Etymology ===
From earlier *elielo, with a loss of initial /e/ and /lj/ fricatizing to /ʒ/, from Latin illī illum.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ʒelo/
=== Contraction ===
gelo
contraction of le m or f by sense (“it”, dative, literally “to it”) + lo m (“it”, accusative)
daregelo he ― I will give it to him
==== Descendants ====
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology 1 ===
From Old Galician-Portuguese gelo, borrowed from Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Displaced the inherited Old Portuguese geo.
==== Alternative forms ====
gêlo (pre-reform spelling or misspelling)
==== Pronunciation ====
Rhymes: -elu
Hyphenation: ge‧lo
==== Noun ====
gelo m (plural gelos)
(uncountable) ice (frozen water)
a cube or chunk of ice
(informal) coldness; cold (low temperature)
Synonym: frio
(figurative) chill (a sudden sense of fear or anxiety)
(figurative) coldness (lack of emotion)
Synonym: frieza
(figurative) a very cool place
===== Derived terms =====
===== Related terms =====
===== Descendants =====
Guinea-Bissau Creole: djelu
Kabuverdianu: gelu
→ Konkani:
Devanagari script: झेल (jhel)
Latin script: jhel
Kannada script: ಝೆಲ್ (jhel)
==== Adjective ====
gelo (invariable)
whose colour is a shade of white like that of ice
=== Etymology 2 ===
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
==== Pronunciation ====
Rhymes: -ɛlu
Hyphenation: ge‧lo
==== Verb ====
gelo
first-person singular present indicative of gelar
=== Further reading ===
“gelo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“gelo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026