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.

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

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: sermeq
• 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: Gletscher m

• 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
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: lodowc 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