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/

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Noun

glacier (plural glaciers)

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

Derived terms

• glacial
• glaciation
• Glacier County

Translations

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

• Afrikaans: gletser
• Albanian: akullnaja
• Arabic: مَثْلَجَة‎‎ f (maṯlaja)
• Armenian: սառցադաշտ (hy) (saṙcʿadašt)
• Azerbaijani: buzlaq (az)
• Basque: glaziar
• Bavarian: gletscha
• Belarusian: ледаві́к m (ljedavík)
• Bengali: হিমবাহ (himbah)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: ledovec (cs) m
• Danish: gletsjer (da) c, jøkel c, bræ c
• Dutch: gletsjer (nl) m
• Esperanto: glaĉero (eo), glaciaro, glaciejo
• 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 n
• Greek: παγετώνας (el) m (pagetónas)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: קַרְחוֹן‎‎ (he) (karkhon)
• Hindi: हिमानी (hi) (himānī)
• 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 (ひょうが, hyōga)
• Kazakh: мұздық (muzdıq)
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: гле́чер m (gléčer)
• Malay: glasier
• Malayalam: ഹിമപ്പരപ്പ് (himapparappŭ)
• Manx: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: hukāpo
• Mongolian: мөсөн гол (mösön gol)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: jiehkki
• Norwegian:

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

  Nynorsk: bre m, isbre m, jøkul m

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: цъити (c’iti)
• Persian: یخسار‎‎ (fa) (yaxsâr)
• 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

• Shor: мустағ (mustağ)
• Sicilian: ghiacciaiu
• Sindhi: برفال‎‎ (sd) m
• Slovak: ľadovec m
• Slovene: ledenik (sl) m
• Southern Sami: dielhtie
• Spanish: glaciar (es) m, helero m
• Swedish: glaciär (sv) c, jökel (sv)
• Tagalog: glasyar
• Tamil: பனியாறு (ta) (paṉiyāṟu)
• Tibetan: གངས (gangs), གངས་ཆེན (gangs chen), གངས་རི (gangs ri)
• Turkish: buzul (tr)
• Turkmen: buzluk (tk)
• Ukrainian: льодови́к m (lʹodovýk)
• Uzbek: muzlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: sông băng (vi)
• Volapük: gladäd (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: rhewlif
• West Frisian: gletsjer c
• Yakut: булуус (buluus)
• Yiddish: גלעטשער‎‎ (gletsher)

See also

• iceberg

Anagrams

• Cargile, gracile

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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/

Noun

glacier m (plural glaciers)

1. glacier
2. ice cream parlor

Synonyms

(ice cream parlor):

• glacerie
• crèmerie / crémerie
• bar laitier
• comptoir de crème glacée

See also

• glace

Further reading

• “glacier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• giclera

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.ki.er/, [ˈɡɫa.ki.ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.t͡ʃi.er/, [ˈɡlaː.t͡ʃi.er]

Noun

glacier n (genitive glacieris); 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 […]

Inflection

Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ēr.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	glaciēr	glacierēs
genitive	glacieris	glacierum
dative	glacierī	glacieribus
accusative	glaciera glacierem	glacierēs
ablative	glaciere	glacieribus
vocative	glaciēr	glacierēs

Verb

glacier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of glaciō