英単語

glacierの意味・使い方・発音

glacier

英 ['glæsɪə; 'gleɪsɪə] 美 ['ɡleʃɚ]
  • 氷河

英語の語源


glacier
glacier: [18] Latin glaciēs meant ‘ice’ (it probably came from Indo-European *gel- ‘cold’, which also produced English cold and Latin gelidus ‘cold’). Its Vulgar Latin descendant was *glacia, which passed into French as glace (whence English glacé ‘iced, crystallized’ [19]). A derivative glacière was used in Frenchspeaking areas of the Alps for a ‘moving mass of ice’. It later became glacier, the form in which English borrowed it. Glacial [17] comes from the Latin derivative glaciālis.
=> cold, glance, jelly
glacier (n.)
1744, from French glacier (16c.), from Savoy dialect glacière "moving mass of ice," from Old French glace "ice," from Vulgar Latin *glacia (source also of Old Proven?al glassa, Italian ghiaccia), from Latin glacies "ice" (see glacial). The German Swiss form gletscher also was used in English (1764).

例文


1. The best bit was walking along the glacier .
最も良い部分は氷河に沿って歩くことです。

2.The glacier calved a large iceberg.
氷河が崩壊して大きな氷山が形成された。

3.The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.
氷河の上面は氷の隙間に割れている。

4.The glacier scooped a canyon out of rocks.
氷河が岩礁から谷を突き出した。

5.The glacier dislocated the great stones.
氷河が巨石を運んだ。

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