frigid

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos Proto-Italic *srīgos Latin frīgus Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin frīgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin frīgidusbor. English frigid Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.

1. Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.

   “A frigid, fine rain was falling.”

   “Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.”

2. Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
3. Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

   “In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid.”