hiver

English

Etymology

From 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

From Middle French hyver, from Old French iver, from Late Latin hībernum.

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
   • 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante‎^[1], pages 3-4:

     La nature même de la tige peut être ligneuse ou herbacée, suivant que cette tige persiste pendant l'hiver, comme les tiges des arbres, ou qu'elle se renouvelle chaque année.

     The very nature of the stem may be ligneous or herbaceous, depending on whether it persists through the winter, like tree stems, or is renewed each year.

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, ivèr, livær
• ⇒ Mauritian Creole: liver
• ⇒ Réunion Creole French: livèr

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

• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “hiver”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “hiver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hayfre, from Old English hēahfore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhai̯vər/

Noun

hiver

1. heifer

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published 1867, page 46