"cold" meaning in Middle English

See cold in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /kɔ̝ːld/, /kaːld/ [Northern], /t͡ʃɛ̝ːld/ (note: East Saxon, Kent, Southern)
Etymology: PIE root *gel- Inherited from Anglian Old English cald, from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz. Variants with ch- are from West Saxon Old English ċeald. Etymology templates: {{PIE root box|enm|gel-}} PIE root *gel-, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang-ang|cald|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Anglian Old English cald, {{inh+|enm|ang-ang|cald}} Inherited from Anglian Old English cald, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*kald}} Proto-West Germanic *kald, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*kaldaz}} Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, {{cog|ang-wsx|ċeald}} West Saxon Old English ċeald Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective|plural and weak singular|colde|comparative|coldere||{{{comp2}}}|superlative|*coldest||{{{sup2}}}|f3l=|f5l=|head=}} cold (plural and weak singular colde, comparative coldere, superlative *coldest), {{enm-adj|colde|coldere|*coldest}} cold (plural and weak singular colde, comparative coldere, superlative *coldest) Forms: colde [plural], colde [singular, weak], coldere [comparative], *coldest [superlative], coold [alternative], chald [alternative], cheald [alternative], cheld [alternative], schald [alternative], cald [alternative, Early-Middle-English, Northern], calde [alternative, Early-Middle-English, Northern]
  1. (temperature) cold, cool:
    Cold, cool (of the weather)
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-adj-enm:adjective Categories (other): Temperature, Weather Disambiguation of Temperature: 33 25 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 Disambiguation of Weather: 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Topics: temperature
  2. (temperature) cold, cool:
    Tending to be cold (of a location)
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-adj-enm:adjective1 Topics: temperature
  3. (temperature) cold, cool:
    Cold to the touch; cold-feeling.
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-adj-enm:adjective1 Categories (other): Pages with entries, Emotions, Fear Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 2 0 5 0 4 5 0 5 0 1 2 6 4 2 0 5 3 3 2 7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 2 8 0 5 0 2 5 4 0 0 3 Disambiguation of Emotions: 0 4 20 0 10 9 5 20 12 13 1 5 Disambiguation of Fear: 0 4 22 0 9 0 3 23 22 12 0 4 Topics: temperature
  4. Lifeless, having the pallor of death.
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-adj-r99WrYYa
  5. Cold-hearted, indifferent, insensitive.
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-adj-jgqC3Oy7
  6. Distressed, sorrowful, worried
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-adj-KcLvJ~jA
  7. Humorally "cold" (of a body part, substance, etc.)
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-adj-Ftn7W8Qr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: colden, coldnesse
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /kɔ̝ːld/, /kaːld/ [Northern], /t͡ʃɛ̝ːld/ (note: East Saxon, Kent, Southern) Forms: coold [alternative], chald [alternative], cheald [alternative], cheld [alternative], schald [alternative], cald [alternative, Early-Middle-English, Northern], calde [alternative, Early-Middle-English, Northern]
Etymology: PIE root *gel- Inherited from Anglian Old English cald, from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz. Variants with ch- are from West Saxon Old English ċeald. Etymology templates: {{PIE root box|enm|gel-}} PIE root *gel-, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang-ang|cald|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Anglian Old English cald, {{inh+|enm|ang-ang|cald}} Inherited from Anglian Old English cald, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*kald}} Proto-West Germanic *kald, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*kaldaz}} Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, {{cog|ang-wsx|ċeald}} West Saxon Old English ċeald Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} cold
  1. Coldness; the state of being cold.
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-noun-cTDa696g Categories (other): Emotions, Fear Disambiguation of Emotions: 0 4 20 0 10 9 5 20 12 13 1 5 Disambiguation of Fear: 0 4 22 0 9 0 3 23 22 12 0 4
  2. Chill; the feeling of being cold.
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-noun-~y70~PL4 Categories (other): Emotions, Fear Disambiguation of Emotions: 0 4 20 0 10 9 5 20 12 13 1 5 Disambiguation of Fear: 0 4 22 0 9 0 3 23 22 12 0 4
  3. Emotional frigidity; a lack of emotion.
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-noun-aPlwiDfw Categories (other): Emotions, Fear Disambiguation of Emotions: 0 4 20 0 10 9 5 20 12 13 1 5 Disambiguation of Fear: 0 4 22 0 9 0 3 23 22 12 0 4
  4. (alchemy, medicine) Alchemical coldness.
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-noun-lPPGdfOn Categories (other): Alchemy, Medicine, Medicine Disambiguation of Medicine: 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 83 0 Topics: alchemy, medicine, pseudoscience, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|altform=1}} cold
  1. alternative form of colden Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: colden
    Sense id: en-cold-enm-verb-SxTkU-5L
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-05-01 using wiktextract (f3d3fdb and ae80fde). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.