gelo

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʒɛ.lu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʒɛ.lo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒɛ.lo]

gelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gelar

From Latin gelu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡelo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: ge‧lo

gelo (accusative singular gelon, plural geloj, accusative plural gelojn)

1. (weather) frost

   Synonym: frosto

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: gè‧lo

From Latin gelū (“frost, chill”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

• gielo (obsolete)

gelo m (plural geli)

1. intense cold
2. frost
3. cold weather
4. icy water
5. coldness (lack of enthusiasm etc.)

• → Neapolitan: gelo

Form of the verb gelare (“to freeze, chill”)

gelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gelare

• gole, lego, legò

From gelū (“frost”) +‎ -ō, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek γελανδρόν (gelandrón).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.loː/, [ˈɡɛɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.lo/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːlo]

gelō (present infinitive gelāre, perfect active gelāvī, supine gelātum); first conjugation

1. to freeze, cause to congeal
2. to frighten, petrify, cause to become rigid with fright

• congelō
• regelō

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: gelare
    • → Neapolitan: gelà
  • Neapolitan: jelare
  • Sicilian: jilari
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: zlar, zler
  • Lombard: zelar, zerar, zlar, zler, gelar, gerar
  • Ligurian: zeâ, zerâ, zrê
  • Piedmontese: geilé, g-ré, gelé, zlé, azlà
  • Romagnol: zler
  • Romansch: schelar
  • Venetan: xełar, gełar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: gelar
  • Franco-Provençal: gelar
  • Old French: geler
    • French: geler
    • Norman: g'ler, g'laïr (Guernsey)
    • Walloon: djaler
    • → Middle English: gelen, gellyn
      • English: geal
      • Scots: geal, jeel
  • Occitan: gelar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: chelar
  • Asturian: xelar
  • Extremaduran: gelal
  • Galician: xear
  • Ladino: yelar
  • Portuguese: gear
  • Spanish: helar
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: gelare, zelare
• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: gelar (learned)
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: djela

• glaciō

• “gelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gelo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gelo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256

• jélo

Borrowed from Italian gelo, from Latin gelū. The alternative form above represents the native Neapolitan outcome.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛlə/

gelo m (plural [please provide])

1. frost (on the vegetation especially)
2. cold (relatively intense cold)

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 383: “il gelo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

From Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, whence also Old English geolu.

gelo

1. yellow

• Middle High German: gël (inflected gëlwe)
  • Alemannic German:
    • Alsatian: gahl, gäl

    Swabian: geal

  • Central Franconian: gäl, jäl, jell
  • Cimbrian: gel, ghéel (Sette Comuni)
  • German: gelb; gehl (regional)

    → Hunsrik: gelleb

  • Luxembourgish: giel
  • Pennsylvania German: gehl
  • Vilamovian: gaoł
  • Yiddish: געל (gel), געלב (gelb)

• gelu

From Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, whence also Old English geolu.

gelo

1. yellow

• Middle Low German: gēl
  • Low German:
    • German Low German:

      Hamburgisch: geel

    • Westphalian:

      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: gial

      Lippisch: gäll

      Sauerländisch: giäl, geal, gail, gēäl

      Westmünsterländisch: gääl, geel, gell

  • Plautdietsch: jäl

From Old Galician-Portuguese gelo, borrowed from Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Displaced the inherited Old Portuguese geo.

• gêlo (obsolete)

• Hyphenation: ge‧lo

gelo m (plural gelos)

1. (uncountable) ice (frozen water)
2. a cube or chunk of ice
3. (informal) coldness; cold (low temperature)

   Synonym: frio

4. (figurative) chill (a sudden sense of fear or anxiety)
5. (figurative) coldness (lack of emotion)

   Synonym: frieza

6. (figurative) a very cool place

• gelinho (diminutive), gelozinho (diminutive)
• gelo seco

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: djelu
• Kabuverdianu: gelu

gelo (invariable)

1. whose colour is a shade of white like that of ice

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: ge‧lo

gelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gelar