refrigerator

From Medieval Latin refrīgerātor (“cooler”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, /ɹəˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/

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refrigerator (plural refrigerators)

2. A household or commercial appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).

   Hyponym: walk-in

   Meronym: condenser

   Coordinate term: freezer

   • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, ch. 11:

     Jo uttered a groan and fell back in her chair, remembering that she had given a last hasty powdering to the berries out of one of the two boxes on the kitchen table, and had neglected to put the milk in the refrigerator.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

3. A similar device used to keep non-food items cold, such as blood, photographic film, drugs, or pharmaceuticals like insulin.

   Meronym: condenser

   Coordinate term: freezer

4. One who has a chilling influence.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     […] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.

• chiller
• coolchest
• fridge, frigerator
• icebox

• → Cebuano: ripridyiritor
• → Kashubian: refredrzerejta (United States)
• → Malayalam: റഫ്രിജറേറ്റർ (ṟaphrijaṟēṟṟaṟ)

• cooler

• refrigerator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From refrīgerō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛ.friː.ɡɛˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [re.fri.d͡ʒeˈraː.tor]

refrīgerātor m (genitive refrīgerātōris); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) one who cools, cooler
2. (Contemporary Latin) refrigerator

Third-declension noun.

• → English: refrigerator
• → Catalan: refrigerador (learned)
• → French: réfrigérateur (learned)
• → Italian: refrigeratore (learned)
• → Portuguese: refrigerador (learned)
• → Romanian: refrigerator (learned)
• → Spanish: refrigerador (learned)

refrīgerātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of refrīgerō

Borrowed from French réfrigérateur. Equivalent to refrigera +‎ -tor.

refrigerator n (plural refrigeratoare)

1. refrigerator

   Synonym: frigider