refrigerium

English

Etymology

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Noun

refrigerium

  1. (obsolete) Cooling refreshment; refrigeration.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: [] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, [], published 1727, →OCLC:
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Noun

refrīgerium n (genitive refrīgeriī or refrīgerī); second declension

  1. cooling
  2. mitigation, consolation

Declension

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Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Portuguese: refrigério
  • Spanish: refrigerio

References

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