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.

Derived terms

• Doomsday Glacier
• East Glacier Park
• glacial
• glaciation
• Glacier County
• 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 (himbah)
• 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 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 (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), ле́дник m (lédnik), ле́деник m (lédenik)
• Malay: glasier

• 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)
• 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
• West Frisian: gletsjer c
• Yakut: булуус (buluus)
• Yiddish: גלעטשער‎ (gletsher)
• Yámana: táun

See also

• iceberg

Further reading

• glacier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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/

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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

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

glaciēr ? (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 […]

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with 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