Relating to or characterized by coldness; feeling or producing a sensation of cold.
From Latin 'algor' (coldness) plus the adjectival suffix '-ous'. Describes things that are cold or cold-producing in nature.
The word 'algous' belongs to a forgotten family of medical and scientific terms about cold—while we've lost most of these words in modern English, they show how doctors and scholars once had precise vocabulary for subtle sensations that we now bundle together as just 'feeling cold.'
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