frigo

Borrowed from French frigo, apocopic form of réfrigérateur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriɣoː/

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frigo m (plural frigo's, diminutive frigootje n)

1. (Belgium) fridge, refrigerator

• (fridge): ijskast, koelkast

Clipping of frigorifique or frigorifié or réfrigérateur.

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.ɡo/

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (colloquial) fridge; refrigerator

• congélateur
• frigidaire
• réfrigérateur

• → Dutch: frigo
• → Norman: frigo

• “frigo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Clipping of frigorifero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfri.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Hyphenation: frì‧go

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frigo m (invariable)

1. fridge, refrigerator

   Synonym: frigorifero

• Grifo, forgi, grifo, grofi

Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰer(H)-g- (“to roast, grill, fry”); cf. Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”). However, Latin frīg- would point to *bʰreyg⁽ʰ⁾-, which lacks formal cognates. De Vaan suggests the word is a loan from late Ancient Greek or another source, following Giacomelli (1994), who assumes it is a late Greek borrowing. Probably related to Umbrian frehtu.^[1] See also fertum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfriː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfriː.ɡo]

frīgō (present infinitive frīgere, perfect active frīxī, supine frīctum or frīxum); third conjugation

1. to roast, fry
2. to parch
   • 1934, Cato, Varro, Agriculture, Harvard University Press, page 98:

     Sesquilibram salis frigito, eodem indito et rude misceto usque adeo, donec ovum gallinaceum coctum natabit, desinito miscere.

     Parch half a pound of salt, add it in, and stir with a stick, until a boiled chicken egg floats, then stop stiring.

1. Cato, Varro (1934). On Agriculture. Translated by W. D. Hooper, Harrison Boyd Ash. Loeb Classical Library 283. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• “frigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “frigo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • advice is useless in this case; the situation is very embarrassing: omnia consilia frigent (Verr. 2. 25)
    

Borrowed from French frigo.

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (Jersey) refrigerator

Clipping of frigorífico.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾiɡo/ [ˈfɾi.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: fri‧go

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (Spain, colloquial) fridge

• “frigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from French frigo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʀi.ɡo/

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. refrigerator

   Synonym: coûcasse