refrigerium

English

Etymology

From Latin refrigerium.

Noun

refrigerium

1. (obsolete) Cooling refreshment; refrigeration.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     some of the Ancients , like kind - hearted Men , have talked much of Annual Refrigeriums , Respites , or Intervals of Punishment to the damned

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “refrigerium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From refrīgerō +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /re.friːˈɡe.ri.um/, [rɛfriːˈɡɛriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.friˈd͡ʒe.ri.um/, [refriˈd͡ʒɛːrium]

Noun

refrīgerium n (genitive refrīgeriī or refrīgerī); second declension (Ecclesiastical Latin)

1. cooling
2. mitigation, consolation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	refrīgerium	refrīgeria
genitive	refrīgeriī refrīgerī1	refrīgeriōrum
dative	refrīgeriō	refrīgeriīs
accusative	refrīgerium	refrīgeria
ablative	refrīgeriō	refrīgeriīs
vocative	refrīgerium	refrīgeria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: refrigerium
• Portuguese: refrigério
• Spanish: refrigerio

References

• “refrigerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• refrigerium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• refrigerium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.