I.chilly, cold, cool (only once in Lucr. and twice in Cic.): “alsia corpora,” cold bodies, Lucr. 5, 1015.—The form alsus only in the comp. neutr.: “Antio nihil quietius, nihil alsius, nihil amoenius,” Cic. Att. 4, 8: Jam ἀποδυτηρίῳ nihil alsius, nihil muscosius, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1; cf Rudd. I. p. 179, n. 52.
alsĭus or alsus , a, um, adj. algeo,