alsior

Comparative of *alsus, from algeō (“to feel cold”) +‎ -tus or a lost perfect passive participle of the same. See also alsius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.si.ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.si.or]

alsior (comparative, neuter alsius, no positive form); third declension

1. (very rare) colder, more chilly
   • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 4.8.1:

     Multa me in epistula tua delectarunt sed nihil magis quam patina tyrotarichi. Nam de raudusculo quod scribis, μήπω μέγ᾽ εἴπῃς πρὶν τελευτήσαντ᾽ ἴδῃς aedificati tibi in agris nihil reperio. In oppido est quiddam, de quo est dubium sitne venale, ac proximum quidem nostris aedibus. Hoc scito, Antium Buthrotum esse Romae, ut Corcyrae illud tuum (Antium). Nihil quietius, nihil alsius, nihil amoenius. Εἴη μοὶ οὕτος φίλος οἶκος.

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   • c. 60 BCE – 54 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1.2:

     Topiarium laudavi: ita omnia convestivit hedera, qua basim villae, qua intercolumnia ambulationis, ut denique illi palliati topiariam facere videantur et hederam vendere. Iam ἀποδυτηρίῳ nihil alsius, nihil muscosius.

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Only attested in the neuter singular.

Third-declension comparative adjective.

• “alsius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “alsius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press