Crossword-Solution: FREDDO 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Her conduct had been so exemplary that she had been called "La contessa del cuore freddo." [Footnote: The countess with the cold heart.] Podstadsky confessed that even he had been desperately in love with her, but finding her unapproachable, had left Rome in despair.

They were attacked at Rotto Freddo by a detachment of Austrians, under general Serbelloni, who maintained the engagement till ten in the morning, when Botta arrived; the battle was renewed with redoubled rage, and lasted till four in the afternoon, when the enemy retired in great disorder to Tortona, with the loss of eight thousand men, a good number of colours and standards, and eighteen pieces of cannon.

Ite, caldi sospiri, al freddo core; Rompete il ghiaccio che pietà contende; E, se prego mortal al ciel s'intende, Morte, o mercè sia fine al mio dolore.

Questa scolpita in oro, amica fede, Che santo amor nel tuo bel dito pose, O prima a me delle terrene cose! Donna! caro mio pregio,--alta mercede-- Ben fu da te serbata; e ben si vede Che al commun' voler' sempre rispose, Del dì ch' il ciel nel mio pensier' t' ascose, E quanto puote dar, tutto mi diede! Ecco ch' io la t' invola--ecco ne spoglio Il freddo avorio che l' ornava; e vesto La mia, più assai che la tua, mano esangue.

Stark, in particular, has gone into the subject with German thoroughness, and produced a most complete list of instances of such contractions, such as Freddo for Fredibert, Wulf for Wulfric, Benno for Bernhard; and among the Anglo-Saxons, Eada for Edwine, and Siga for Siwerd, &c., from which he seems to arrive at the general conclusion that simple names are in all cases contractions of compound names.