Glacio, glacias, glaciâre. Plin. To congeale: to freeze: to turne to ice. Actiuè. Humor glaciatur in gemmas. Plin. Iuppiter glaciat niues. Horat. Glaciari. Plin. To be frozen or congealed. Passiuè.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
glăcĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [glacies] (not ante-Aug.). I.Act., to make or turn into ice; in pass., to freeze, congeal.A.Lit.: positas ut glaciet nives Puro numine Juppiter, Hor. C. 3, 10, 7: humor glaciatur arescitve in gemmas, Plin. 8, 38, 57, 137; cf. id. 2, 39, 39, 105: ruptis vasis (vini) stetere glaciatae moles, id. 14, 21, 27, 132; 24, 13, 72, 116.—2.Transf., to render hard or solid: nec dubium quin fici ramulis glaciatus caseus jucundissime sapiat, Col. 7, 8, 2.—B.Trop.: stupet anxius alto Corda metu glaciante pater, Stat. Th. 10, 622.—II.Neutr., to become hard, to harden: (unguentum) fit hieme, quoniam aestate non glaciat, nisi acceptā cerā, Plin. 29, 3, 13, 56.
