English
frigorific
Frigorific comes from Latin frīgorificus ‘cooling’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrīgorificus‘cooling’
- Englishearliest quotation 1663frigorific
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrīgorificus‘cooling’
- Englishearliest quotation 1663frigorific
Earliest quotation: 1663, Robert Boyle, Title V. Experiments Touching the Tendency of Cold Upwards o: “[W]hen vve have, as vve very frequently have, put…”
A compound of frigus ‘cold’ + facere ‘to make’
Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos ‘cold, frost’
Proto-Italic *srīgos
Latin frigus ‘cold’
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō ‘to make’
Latin faciō ‘to make’
Every English word from Latin frīgorificus
Today it means
adj Causing to chill or cool.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin frīgorificus / frigorific