glacier
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Contents |
English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowing from French glacier, from Old French glace (“ice”), from Latin glacies (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Noun [edit]
glacier (plural glaciers)
- A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill
|
|
See also [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French glace (“ice”), from Latin glacies (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Noun [edit]
glacier m (plural glaciers)
See also [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English borrowed terms
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- English words not following the I before E except after C rule
- en:Nature
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
