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Latin tepidus, Spanish-Portuguese tibio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Roland G. Kent
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Language , Volume 13 , Issue 2-Part1: April-June , June 1937, pp. 145 - 146
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Copyright © 1937 Linguistic Society of America

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1 Other dialectal forms and derivatives may be found in the etymological dictionaries.

2 Also Port. (archaic) tibo; but Mod. Port. tépido is learned.

3 In Gröber's Grundriss d. rom. Phil. I2 (1904-6); a rather similar view is given by E. H. Tuttle, Mod. Phil. 11. 348 (Jan. 1914).

4 References for this and other views are given in W. Meyer-Lubke, Rom. etym. Worth., s.v. frigidus.

5 In the Hispanic peninsula rigidus left few continuants, apart from learned words. Port. rijo ‘harsh, rigid’, is regular; it has an abstract derivative, rijeza. Sp. recio ‘strong, vigorous, hard, heavy’ is irregular both in its e and in its c, and has been taken as a back-formation from arrecir-se ‘to become stiff and swollen from cold’, which developed regularly from ad + rigescere; cf. Meyer-Lübke, LEW3, No. 7312a (who cites Galician arrecerse and not Castilian arrecirse).