gĕlĭdus — Lewis & Short
gĕlĭdus, a, um (archaic
I gen. fem. sing. gelidaï
aquaï,Lucr. 3, 693), adj. gelu, icy cold, very cold, icy, frosty (a higher degree than frigidus; cf. also: algidus, rigidus, glacialis).
I 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.—
B 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.—
II 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, yuxrw=s:
quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat,Hor. A. P. 171.