(adjective) : gĕlĭdus, a, um (archaic
* Gen. fem. sing. gelidaï aquaï,Lucr. 3, 693), gelu, icy cold, very cold, icy, frosty (a higher degree than frigidus; cf. also: algidus, rigidus, glacialis).
* Lit.: (Fibrenus) statim praecipitat in Lirem ... eumque multo gelidiorem facit,Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6: caelum est hieme frigidum et gelidum,cold and frosty,Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 4: aqua,Lucr. 3, 693: aquam gelidam bibere,Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31; cf.: gelidissimae aquae,Plin. 31, 2, 6, § 10: fontium gelidae perennitates,Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98: fluvii,Lucr. 6, 1172: nives,id. 6, 107: pruina,id. 2, 431; 515; Verg. G. 2, 263: loca gelida propinquitate Tauri montis,Liv. 38, 27, 9: nemus,Hor. C. 1, 1, 30: valles,Verg. G. 2, 488: rupes,id. A. 8, 343: Haemus,Hor. C. 1, 12, 6: Algidus,id. ib. 1, 21, 6: Scythes, id. ib. 4, 5, 25: saxum,Lucr. 3, 892: umbrae frigoris,id. 5, 641: nox,Verg. G. 1, 287; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 169: aether,Verg. A. 8, 28: December,Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 3: foci,i. e. never kindled,id. F. 3, 28: tyrannus (i. e. Boreas),id. M. 6, 711.
* Subst.: gĕlĭda, ae, f. (sc. aqua), water cold as ice (like frigida; cf. calida or calda, warm water): foribusque repulsum Perfundit gelida,Hor. S. 2, 7, 91: calidae gelidaeque minister; Juv. 5, 63.
* In partic., icy cold, cold, stiff with death, old age, or fright (poet., like frigidus): (Niobe) corporibus gelidis incumbit,Ov. M. 6, 277: artus,id. ib. 4, 247; 6, 249: vultus,id. ib. 4, 141: gelidus tardante senecta Sanguis hebet,Verg. A. 5, 395: et gelidum subito frigore pectus erat,Ov. F. 1, 98; so, pavidus gelidusque,id. M. 3, 688; cf. id. ib. 10, 423.—Hence also transf., of death, fright, etc.: gelidi vestigia leti,Lucr. 3, 530: mors,Hor. C. 2, 8, 11; Ov. M. 15, 153: metus,id. H. 11, 82; cf. formido,id. M. 2, 200: horror,id. H. 16, 67: terror,id. M. 3, 100: tremor,Verg. A. 2, 120: pallor,Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 11.—Adv.: gĕlĭde (like frigide, I.), coldly, faintly, indolently, ψυχρῶς: quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat,Hor. A. P. 171.

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