A few days ago
why is it called a “refrigerator”, and not just a frigerator?
It’s a machine that cools things, or makes them “frigid”, so why isn’t it just a “frigerator”. Is it because we buy frigid items in the grocery store, take them home and “re-frigerate” What if i cool something i made myself, like a pie… i can’t really be “refrigerating the pie because it was never frigid before. Hence, i must actually be using my refrigerator as “frigerator”! Next question: Does this void the warranty?
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A few days ago
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Word origin refrigeration –
1471, “act of cooling or freezing,” from L.
refrigerationem “mitigation of heat,” especially in sickness, noun of action from refrigerare, from re- “again” + frigerare “make cool,” from frigus (gen. frigoris) “cold.”
Specifically of “freezing provisions as a means of preserving them” from 1881.
Refrigerator “cabinet for keeping food cool” is first recorded 1824, originally in the brewery trade, in place of earlier refrigeratory (1605).
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A few days ago
Typically things you put in refrigerator are bought cold, so you have to keep them cold, so yes, you are refrigerating them. Nowadays there are more items that come normal but need to be cooled to keep fresh, but back in the day upon invention there weren’t that many. Why would it void the warranty? That’s stupid…as is this question, pretty much…
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4 years ago
Frigerator
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A few days ago
It comes from the latin “re frigerare”, which means “to cool thoroughly”
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