Feb 26, 2023
Lost Word Of The Day (14)
Gelicide was an alternative noun for #frost #lostwords #obscurewords #logophilia
Looking for a new word to describe frost? Why not try gelicide? It was defined as meaning frost by Thomas Blount in his Glossographia (1656-81), handily subtitled as a Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words as are now used. The etymology is fairly clear, from the Latin noun for frost, gelecidium. Rather like the frost itself, the word soon disappeared.
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