hiver

English

Etymology

hive +‎ -er

Noun

hiver (plural hivers)

1. One who collects bees into a hive.
   • 1820, A. B. Herbert, A. P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Of Bees, page 516:

     The hiver must have his face and hands defended, as above-mentioned, and accompanied by a person holding a chafing-dish, with a coal fire, covered with moist peat, to make the greater smoke […]

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French hyver, from Old French hyveir, yver, iver, from Latin hībernum (tempus) (a borrowing, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française, and first documented in 1282), whence also Italian inverno and Spanish invierno. Closely related to Catalan hivern. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-, from *ǵʰey-.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.vɛʁ/

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• (Quebec, formal) IPA^(key): [i.vɛːʁ]
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): [i.veɪ̯ʁ], [i.vaɛ̯ʁ]

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [i.væ(ɾ)]

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁ
• Homophone: hivers

Noun

hiver m (plural hivers)

1. winter

Derived terms

• heure d’hiver
• passer l’hiver
• pneu d’hiver
• pneu hiver
• qu’est-ce que ça mange en hiver?
• solstice d’hiver
• sport d’hiver
• triathlon d’hiver

 

Related terms

• hibernal
• hibernation
• hiberner
• hivernage
• hivernal
• hiverner

 

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: livè, livær, ivèr

See also

Seasons in French · saisons (layout · text) · category
printemps (“spring”)	été (“summer”)	automne (“autumn”)	hiver (“winter”)

See also

• chiménophyte
• hygrochiménique
• xérochimène
• xérochiménique
• xérothermochiménique

 

Further reading

• “hiver” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “hiver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English heyfer, from Old English hēahfore.

Noun

hiver

1. heifer

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 46