- refrigerate (v.)
[refrigerate 词源字典]
- 1530s, back-formation from refrigeration, or else from Latin refrigeratus, past participle of refrigerare "make cool or cold." Related: Refrigerated; refrigerating. Earlier words in the same sense of "to make cold, to cool" were infrigiden, infrigidate (both early 15c.).[refrigerate etymology, refrigerate origin, 英语词源]