glacier

See also: Glacier

English

Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina

Etymology

Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal glacier, derived from glace + -ier, (cf. also Medieval Latin glaciarium), derived from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glacies (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæs.jə/, /ˈɡleɪs.jə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/, /ˈɡleɪs.jɚ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

glacier (plural glaciers)

1. (geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

   They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.

2. (mountaineering) An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.

   You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.

Derived terms

• continental glacier
• Doomsday Glacier
• East Glacier Park
• glacial
• glaciation
• glacier bird
• glacier buttercup
• Glacier County
• glacier milk
• glacier mouse
• rock glacier
• salt glacier
• Siachen Glacier
• Thwaites Glacier

 

Translations

a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill

• Afrikaans: gletser (af)
• Albanian: akullnaja
• Arabic: مَثْلَجَة‎ f (maṯlaja)
• Armenian: սառցադաշտ (hy) (saṙcʿadašt)
• Azerbaijani: buzlaq (az)
• Basque: glaziar
• Bavarian: gletscha
• Belarusian: ледаві́к m (ljedavík)
• Bengali: হিমবাহ (bn) (himbaho)
• Breton: skorneg
• Bulgarian: ледни́к m (ledník), гле́тчер m (glétčer)
• Burmese: ရေခဲမြစ် (my) (rehkai:mrac)
• Catalan: glacera
• Central Melanau: pejujoh
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰川 (zh) (bīngchuān), 冰河 (zh) (bīnghé)

• Cornish: rewiva, rewliv
• Corsican: ghjacciale
• Czech: ledovec (cs) m
• Danish: gletsjer (da) c, jøkel c, bræ c
• Dutch: gletsjer (nl) m
• Esperanto: glaĉero (eo), glaciaro, glaciejo (eo)
• Estonian: liustik
• Faroese: jøkul m
• Finnish: jäätikkö (fi)
• French: glacier (fr) m
• Galician: glaciar m
• Georgian: მყინვარი (mq̇invari)
• German: Gletscher (de) m, Ferner (de) m, Kees (de) n
• Greek: παγετώνας (el) m (pagetónas)
• Greenlandic: sermeq
• Hebrew: קַרְחוֹן‎ (he) (karkhon)
• Hindi: हिमानी (hi) (himānī), ग्लेशियर (hi) m (gleśiyar), हिमखंड (hi) m (himkhaṇḍ), हिमबाह m (himbāh), हिमनदी f (himandī)
• Hungarian: gleccser (hu)
• Icelandic: jökull (is) m, ísbreiða f
• Ido: glaciero (io)
• Indonesian: gletser (id)
• Irish: oighearshruth m
• Italian: ghiacciaio (it) m
• Japanese: 氷河 (ja) (ひょうが, hyōga)
• Kazakh: мұздық (mūzdyq)
• Khmer: ផ្ទាំងទឹកកក (pteaŋ tɨk kɑɑ kɑɑ)
• Korean: 빙하 (ko) (bingha)
• Ladin: giacé
• Latin: glaciarium, glacier
• Latvian: ledājs (lv) m
• Limburgish: gletsjer (li)
• Lithuanian: ledynas m
• Luxembourgish: Gletscher m
• Macedonian: гле́чер m (gléčer), ле́дник m (lédnik), ле́деник m (lédenik)
• Malay: glasier, (rare) sungai air batu
• Malayalam: ഹിമപ്പരപ്പ് (himapparappŭ)
• Manx: awin rioee
• Maori: hukāpo
• Mongolian: мөсөн гол (mösön gol)
• Nepali: हिमनदी (ne) (himanadī)
• Northern Sami: jiehkki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bre (no) m, isbre m, jøkel m

  Nynorsk: bre m, isbre m, jøkul m

• Occitan: glacièr (oc), conglaç (oc)
• Ossetian: цъити (c’iti)
• Persian: یخسار‎ (fa) (yaxsâr)
• Plautdietsch: Iessboach m
• Polish: lodowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: glaciar (pt) m (Portugal), geleira (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: ghețar (ro) m
• Romansch: glatscher, sglatscher, vadretg, vadret
• Russian: ледни́к (ru) m (ledník)
• Saterland Frisian: Glitsker
• Scottish Gaelic: eigh-shruth m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ледењак m, ледник m, глечер m

  Roman: ledènjāk (sh) m, lednik m, glȅčer (sh) m

• Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
• Shor: мустағ (mustağ)
• Sicilian: ghiacciaiu
• Sindhi: برفال‎ (sd) m
• Slovak: ľadovec m
• Slovene: ledenik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: lodowc m

• Southern Sami: dielhtie
• Spanish: glaciar (es) m, helero m
• Swahili: barafuto
• Swedish: glaciär (sv) c, jökel (sv)
• Tagalog: glasyar
• Tamil: பனியாறு (ta) (paṉiyāṟu)
• Thai: ธารน้ำแข็ง (taan-nám-kɛ̌ng)
• Tibetan: གངས (gangs), གངས་ཆེན (gangs chen), གངས་རི (gangs ri), འཁྱགས་ཀླུང ('khyags klung)
• Turkish: buzul (tr)
• Turkmen: buzluk (tk)
• Ukrainian: льодови́к m (lʹodovýk)
• Uzbek: muzlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: sông băng (vi)
• Volapük: gladäd (vo)
• Walloon: glaecî (wa)
• Welsh: rhewlif m
• West Frisian: gletsjer c
• Yakut: булуус (buluus)
• Yiddish: גלעטשער‎ (gletsher)
• Yámana: táun
• Zazaki: cemediye

See also

• iceberg

Further reading

• glacier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cargile, gracile

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal glacier, derived from glace + -ier, (cf. also Medieval Latin glaciarium), derived from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glacies (“ice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡla.sje/

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Noun

glacier m (plural glaciers)

1. glacier
2. ice cream parlor

   Synonyms: glacerie, crémerie, bar laitier

See also

• glace

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• giclera

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from English glacier or French glacier, both from Franco-Provençal glacier, ultimately from Latin glaciārium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.ki.eːr/, [ˈɡɫ̪äkieːr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.t͡ʃi.er/, [ˈɡläːt͡ʃier]

Noun

glaciēr ? (genitive glaciēris); third declension

1. (New Latin) glacier
   • 2015, Pope Franciscus, “Laudato si’. [1], Litterae Encyclicae, Vatican:

     Glacierum liquatio tam in polis quam in regionibus eximiae altitudinis gravissimum periculum denuntiat ne gasium methanum exeat […]

     The melting of glaciers at the poles as much as at particular high regions summons the grave danger that methane gas may be released […]

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	glaciēr	glaciērēs
Genitive	glaciēris	glaciērum
Dative	glaciērī	glaciēribus
Accusative	glaciērem	glaciērēs
Ablative	glaciēre	glaciēribus
Vocative	glaciēr	glaciērēs

Related terms

• glaciēs (“ice”)
• glaciō (“I freeze”)

Verb

glacier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of glaciō