frigo

See also: Frigo, frigó, and frigo-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French frigo, apocopic form of réfrigérateur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriɣoː/

• Audio:

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Noun

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

1. (Belgium) fridge, refrigerator

Synonyms

• (fridge): ijskast, koelkast

French

Etymology

Clipping of frigorifique or frigorifié or réfrigérateur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.ɡo/

Noun

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (colloquial) fridge; refrigerator

Coordinate terms

• congélateur
• frigidaire
• réfrigérateur

Descendants

• → Dutch: frigo
• → Norman: frigo

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Clipping of frigorifero.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Noun

frigo m (invariable)

1. fridge, refrigerator

   Synonym: frigorifero

Anagrams

• Grifo, forgi, grifo, grofi

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer(H)-g-; 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. See also fertum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfriː.ɡoː/, [ˈfriːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfri.ɡo/, [ˈfriːɡo]

Verb

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

1. to roast, fry

   Crēdere cāridem hanc orȳzam frīxisse abnegō

   I refuse to believe that a shrimp fried this rice.

2. to parch

Conjugation

   Conjugation of frīgō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	frīgō	frīgis	frīgit	frīgimus	frīgitis	frīgunt
	imperfect	frīgēbam	frīgēbās	frīgēbat	frīgēbāmus	frīgēbātis	frīgēbant
	future	frīgam	frīgēs	frīget	frīgēmus	frīgētis	frīgent
	perfect	frīxī	frīxistī	frīxit	frīximus	frīxistis	frīxērunt, frīxēre
	pluperfect	frīxeram	frīxerās	frīxerat	frīxerāmus	frīxerātis	frīxerant
	future perfect	frīxerō	frīxeris	frīxerit	frīxerimus	frīxeritis	frīxerint
passive	present	frīgor	frīgeris, frīgere	frīgitur	frīgimur	frīgiminī	frīguntur
	imperfect	frīgēbar	frīgēbāris, frīgēbāre	frīgēbātur	frīgēbāmur	frīgēbāminī	frīgēbantur
	future	frīgar	frīgēris, frīgēre	frīgētur	frīgēmur	frīgēminī	frīgentur
	perfect	frīctus or frīxus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	frīctus or frīxus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	frīctus or frīxus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	frīgam	frīgās	frīgat	frīgāmus	frīgātis	frīgant
	imperfect	frīgerem	frīgerēs	frīgeret	frīgerēmus	frīgerētis	frīgerent
	perfect	frīxerim	frīxerīs	frīxerit	frīxerīmus	frīxerītis	frīxerint
	pluperfect	frīxissem	frīxissēs	frīxisset	frīxissēmus	frīxissētis	frīxissent
passive	present	frīgar	frīgāris, frīgāre	frīgātur	frīgāmur	frīgāminī	frīgantur
	imperfect	frīgerer	frīgerēris, frīgerēre	frīgerētur	frīgerēmur	frīgerēminī	frīgerentur
	perfect	frīctus or frīxus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	frīctus or frīxus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	frīge	—	—	frīgite	—
	future	—	frīgitō	frīgitō	—	frīgitōte	frīguntō
passive	present	—	frīgere	—	—	frīgiminī	—
	future	—	frīgitor	frīgitor	—	—	frīguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		frīgere	frīxisse	frīctūrum esse, frīxūrum esse	frīgī	frīctum esse, frīxum esse	frīctum īrī, frīxum īrī
participles		frīgēns	—	frīctūrus, frīxūrus	—	frīctus, frīxus	frīgendus, frīgundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		frīgendī	frīgendō	frīgendum	frīgendō	frīctum, frīxum	frīctū, frīxū

Derived terms

• frīctus (“roasted, fried; parched”)
• frīxus (“roasted, fried”)

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fríere, fríghere, friri
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: frigu
  • Romanian: frige
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: fregur
  • Italian: friggere
  • Sicilian: frìjiri
  • Venetan: frìxer, frìxar, frìzar
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fridi
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: fregir
  • Occitan: fregir
  • Old French: frire
    • French: frire
    • → Middle English: fryen, frien, frye, fryyn
      • English: fry
      • Scots: fry
      • → Irish: priáil
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: freyir
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: frigir
    • Galician: frixir
    • Portuguese: frigir
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino: friyir
    • Spanish: freír
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *frīctīāre
  • Italian: frizzare
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *frīctūra (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Old Irish: [Term?]
    • Irish: frioch
  • → Proto-Albanian: [Term?]
    • Albanian: fërgoj
  • → Proto-Brythonic: [Term?]
    • Cornish: fria
    • Welsh: ffrio

Further reading

• “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)
    

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French frigo.

Noun

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (Jersey) refrigerator

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of frigorífico.

Noun

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. (Spain, colloquial) fridge

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10

Walloon

Etymology

Borrowed from French frigo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʀi.ɡo/

Noun

frigo m (plural frigos)

1. refrigerator

   Synonym: coûcasse