Tuesday, 5 November 2024

The Latin for Cold

The Latin for Cold.

A school-master asked one of his scholars in the
winter time, what was the Latin for cold. " Oh!
sir," answered the lad, " I forget at this moment,
although I have it at my fingers' ends."

J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps & A.J. Storey, Cambridge Jokes: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; 1842), p .8.