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gĕlĭdus , a, um (archaic
I.gen. fem. sing. gelidaï “aquaï,Lucr. 3, 693), adj. gelu, icy cold, very cold, icy, frosty (a higher degree than frigidus; cf. also: algidus, rigidus, glacialis).
B. Subst.: gĕlĭda , ae, f. (sc. aqua), water cold as ice (like frigida; cf. “calida or calda, warm water): foribusque repulsum Perfundit gelida,Hor. S. 2, 7, 91: calidae gelidaeque minister; Juv. 5, 63.—
II. In partic., icy cold, cold, stiff with death, old age, or fright (poet., like frigidus): “(Niobe) corporibus gelidis incumbit,Ov. M. 6, 277: “artus,id. ib. 4, 247; “6, 249: vultus,id. ib. 4, 141: “gelidus tardante senecta Sanguis hebet,Verg. A. 5, 395: “et gelidum subito frigore pectus erat,Ov. F. 1, 98; so, “pavidus gelidusque,id. M. 3, 688; cf. id. ib. 10, 423.—Hence also transf., of death, fright, etc.: “gelidi vestigia leti,Lucr. 3, 530: “mors,Hor. C. 2, 8, 11; Ov. M. 15, 153: “metus,id. H. 11, 82; cf. “formido,id. M. 2, 200: “horror,id. H. 16, 67: “terror,id. M. 3, 100: “tremor,Verg. A. 2, 120: “pallor,Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 11.—Adv.: gĕlĭde (like frigide, I.), coldly, faintly, indolently, ψυχρῶς: “quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat,Hor. A. P. 171.
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