It's the Word of the Day podcast for January 8th.

Today's word is gelid, spelled G-E-L-I-D.

Jellid is an adjective.

Something described as gelid, 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.

Delish.com's assistant food editor, Taylor Ann Spencer, notes Oregon-based ice creamery salt and straw for combos like pistachio with

saffron and hibiscus and coconut. Other offerings there sound like a warm hug in gelid 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 gelid is all about ice, ice, ice.

Jellid entered English late in the 16th century from the Latin adjective Gelidus, which ultimately comes from

the noun Galu, 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 Galare,

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 prizefighter's

gelid stare. With your word of the day,

I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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