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a word that froze over from physics and crept into the bedroom.
means Extremely cold; or, of a person, emotionally cold and unaffectionate (and in older usage, said dismissively of a woman lacking sexual desire).
from From Latin 'frigidus,' meaning cold or chilly, built on 'frigus,' frost or cold — a cousin of Greek 'rhigos,' the shiver of cold. It entered English in the 1500s purely about temperature, then the chill spread metaphorically to feelings and, eventually and unkindly, to desire.
- latin root
- From frigus, simply meaning cold or frost
- astronomy use
- Frigid Zones are Earth's polar circles
- double meaning
- Describes both weather and emotional unavailability
- temperature term
- Implies cold sharp enough to bite skin
for instance
lake vivi — canadian arctic lake that remains frozen year-round, reaching temperatures below -40°c in winter
east antarctic plateau — research station dome a recorded -89.2°c in 2010, the coldest naturally occurring temperature on earth