Meaning

adjective having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration

noun a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

adjective extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion

originInherited from Middle English cold, from Anglian Old English cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Cognates Cognate with Scots cald, cauld (“cold”), Saterland Frisian koold…

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