algid
Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature, especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
Adjective
- Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature, especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
- algid malaria
- 1875 March 15, J. C. Morgan, More on Typho-Malarial Fever, United States Medical Investigator, New Series, Volume 1, No. 6, page 261, […] with cold sweat, blueness, stupidity, no heat, no sort of reaction or remission,...
- The coldest, most algid moments of this savage industrialization, commanded by the Robber Barons (Josephson 1962), were featured in a recent book on the expansionary experience of the railroads, which by 1900, had...
Origin
Etymology tree Latin algeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin algidusbor. English algid Borrowed from Latin algidus (“cold”).