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iceberg

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English

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Iceberg diagram
An iceberg

Etymology

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Partial calque of Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) +‎ berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg. Figurative senses in reference to the fact that only one-tenth of an iceberg is usually visible above water.

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iceberg (plural icebergs)

  1. (obsolete) The seaward end of a glacier. [18th–19th c.]
  2. A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from 19th c.]
    The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
  3. (US, slang) An aloof person. [from 19th c.]
  4. (figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show.
    • 2013, “How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back”, in The Economist‎[1]:
      He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.
  5. (figuratively, slang, chiefly Internet slang) A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem.
    Near-synonym: rabbit hole
    Do some digging into that politician's past life and associates, and you'll see that the iceberg runs deep.
    There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.
    1. (by extension) A list, infographic, or other enumeration of such a topic and its subcomponents, often ordered into groups sorted by obscurity and bizarreness.
      Check out the gaming iceberg on this post! There's some really freaky titles there that I've never heard of.
      Today we're gonna talk about the Star Wars iceberg.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

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Noun

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iceberg m (plural icebergs)

  1. iceberg

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Galician

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Noun

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iceberg m (plural icebergs)

  1. iceberg

Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

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iceberg m (invariable)

  1. iceberg

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References

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  1. ^ iceberg in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌaj.seˈbɛʁ.ɡi/ [ˌaɪ̯.seˈbɛɦ.ɡi], /ˌaj.siˈbɛʁ.ɡi/ [ˌaɪ̯.siˈbɛɦ.ɡi]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˌaj.seˈbɛɾ.ɡi/ [ˌaɪ̯.seˈbɛɾ.ɡi], /ˌaj.siˈbɛɾ.ɡi/ [ˌaɪ̯.siˈbɛɾ.ɡi]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌaj.seˈbɛʁ.ɡi/ [ˌaɪ̯.seˈbɛʁ.ɡi], /ˌaj.siˈbɛʁ.ɡi/ [ˌaɪ̯.siˈbɛʁ.ɡi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌaj.seˈbɛɻ.ɡe/ [ˌaɪ̯.seˈbɛɻ.ɡe]

Noun

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iceberg m (plural icebergs)

  1. iceberg (huge mass of floating ice)

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /iθeˈbeɾ/ [i.θeˈβ̞eɾ], /iθeˈbeɾɡ/ [i.θeˈβ̞eɾɣ̞]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /iseˈbeɾ/ [i.seˈβ̞eɾ], /iseˈbeɾɡ/ [i.seˈβ̞eɾɣ̞]
    • Rhymes: -eɾ, -eɾɡ
    • Syllabification: i‧ce‧berg
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, also) /ˈaisbeɾɡ/ [ˈai̯z.β̞eɾɣ̞]

Noun

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iceberg m (plural icebergs)

  1. iceberg
    Synonym: témpano de hielo
    la punta del iceberg ― the tip of the iceberg

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