glace

See also: Glace, glacé, Glacé, and glacê

Franco-Provençal

Noun

glace (ORB, narrow)

1. alternative form of gllace (“ice”)

References

• Stich, Dominique (2001) Francoprovençal: Proposition d'une orthographe supra-dialectale standardisée (Thesis)‎^[1], University of Paris, page 366

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French glace, from Old French glace (“ice", also "glass, mirror, radiance”), from Vulgar Latin *glacium/a, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”). The senses of "glass, mirror, radiance" were possibly derived from Frankish *glas (“glass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlas/

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• Rhymes: -as

Noun

glace f (plural glaces)

1. ice
   • 1688, Guy Miège, French-English Dictionary:

     Elle est pour moi toute de glace.

     She is all ice to me.

2. (France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, West Africa) ice cream

   Synonym: crème glacée

3. glass

   Synonyms: verre, vitre

   • 1688, Guy Miège, French-English Dictionary:

     Les glaces de mon carosse sont cassées.

     My coach-glasses (i.e. windows) are broken.

4. mirror

   Synonym: miroir

Derived terms

• armoire à glace
• bain de glace
• briser la glace
• cap glacé
• crème à glace
• cuillère à glace
• disque de glace
• escalade de glace
• escalade sur glace
• glace carbonique
• glace sèche
• glacer
• hockey sur glace
• patin à glace
• patinage à glace
• pêche sous la glace
• pêche sur glace
• pic à glace
• poiré de glace
• vin de glace

Related terms

• glacé
• glacial
• glacier
• glacière
• glaçon

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: glas
• → Italian: glassa
• → Lingala: galási
• → Luxembourgish: Glace
• → Moroccan Arabic: جلاص (glāṣ)
• → Swedish: glass
• → Switzerland German: Glace

Verb

glace

1. inflection of glacer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “glace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Friulian

Alternative forms

• glaç m

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *glacium/a, from Latin glaciēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlat͡ʃe/

Noun

glace f (plural glacis)

1. ice

Derived terms

• glaçâ
• inglaçâ

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 381: “il ghiaccio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

glace

1. alternative form of glas

Etymology 2

Verb

glace

1. alternative form of glasen (verb)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

glace m (definite singular glaceen, indefinite plural glaceer, definite plural glaceene)

1. alternative spelling of glacé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

glace m (definite singular glaceen, indefinite plural glacear, definite plural glaceane)

1. alternative spelling of glacé

Old French

Alternative forms

• glaice, glaiche, glache

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *glacium/a, from Latin glaciēs.

Pronunciation

• (early) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlat͡sə/, /ˈɡlai̯-/, (northern:) /-t͡ʃə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlasə/, /ˈɡlɛ-/, (northern:) /-ʃə/

Noun

glace oblique singular, f (oblique plural glaces, nominative singular glace, nominative plural glaces)

1. ice

Descendants

• Champenois: guiaice
• French: glace (see there for further descendants)
• Franc-Comtois: yaice
• Norman: gllèche, gliaiche (Jersey), gllache (Guernsey), glyech (Sark)
• Walloon: glaece

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French glacé.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.si/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.si/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.se/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.sɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -asi, (Portugal) -asɨ
• Hyphenation: gla‧ce

Noun

glace f (plural glaces)

1. alternative form of glacê

Further reading

• “glace”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Swedish

Noun

glace c

1. archaic spelling of glass (“ice cream”)

Declension

Declension of glace

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	glace	glaces
	definite	glacen	glacens
plural	indefinite	glacer	glacers
	definite	glacerna	glacernas