It's the Word of the Day podcast for January 8th.
Today's word is JELLID, spelled G-E-L-I-D.
JELLID is an adjective.
Something described as JELLID, such as the weather or a person's demeanor,
is literally or figuratively extremely cold or icy.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Chicago Sun-Times by Kim Cook.
Other offerings there sound like a warm hug in jellied form,
jasmine milk tea laced with chocolate-coated almond slivers, or rhubarb crumble with toasted anise.
All right, stop.
Collaborate and listen.
The history of the word jellied is all about ice, ice, ice.
Gelid entered English late in the 16th century from the Latin adjective gelidus,
which ultimately comes from the noun gelu, meaning frost or cold.
The noun gelatin,
which can refer to an edible jelly that undergoes a cooling process as part of its formation,
comes from the related word gelare, meaning to freeze.
Gelid is used to describe anything of extremely cold temperature,
as in the gelid waters of the Arctic Ocean.
But the word can also be used figuratively to describe a person with a cold demeanor,
as in the prize fighters gelid stare.