frigorific
[frig-uh-rif-ik]
- causing or producing cold.
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Origin of frigorific
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This vaporization of liquids is a frigorific or cooling process, and when most rapid the frigorific effect reaches its maximum.
frigorific
- obsolete causing cold or freezing
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Word Origin
C17: from French frigorifique, from Latin frīgorificus, from frīgus cold, coldness + facere to make
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Word Origin and History for frigorific
adj.
"causing cold," 1660s, from French frigorifique, from Late Latin frigorificus "cooling," from Latin frigus (genitive frigoris) "cold, cool, coolness" (see frigid) + -ficus "making," root of facere "make, do" (see factitious).
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