glacier

Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciārium, a derivative of Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. First attested in English in 1744 per the OED.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæs.jə/, /ˈɡleɪs.jə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/, /ˈɡleɪs.jɚ/

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• Homophone: glassier (non-rhotic accents without trap-bath split)

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.

2. (mountaineering) An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.

   You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.

• glaciate
• glaciology

• → Hindi: ग्लेशियर (gleśiyar)

• iceberg

• glacier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Cargile, gracile

• IPA^(key): /ɡla.sje/

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Borrowed from Franco-Provençal gllaciér. First attested in 1757. Cognate with German Gletscher.

glacier m (plural glaciers)

1. (geology) glacier

• →? Catalan: glacera (calque)
• → English: glacier
  • → Hindi: ग्लेशियर (gleśiyar)
• → Italian: ghiacciaio (calque)
• → New Latin: glaciārium (calque)
• → Romanian: ghețar (calque)
• → Spanish: glaciar
  • → Galician: glaciar
  • → Portuguese: glaciar

glace (“mirror; ice-cream”) +‎ -ier (occupational suffix).

glacier m (plural glaciers)

1. (dated) maker of mirrors
2. seller of ice-cream
3. (by extension) ice-cream parlour

   Synonyms: glacerie, crémerie, bar laitier

• “glacier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• giclera