sleet

(Anglès)

Noun

1. (US, countable, uncountable) Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
2. (Ireland, Northeastern, UK, US, countable, uncountable) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
3. (countable, rare, uncountable) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
4. (countable, uncountable) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

Verb

To be in a state in which sleet is falling.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/sliːt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: slete

Heretat de anglès antic: *slēte

Cognat amb danès: slud

Cognat amb baix alemany: Sloot

Cognat amb alemany: Schloße

In summary

From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet”). Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud (“mixture of rain and snow”)). The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.

Conceptes

aiguaneu

borrufar

borrufejar

caure aiguaneu

Sinònims

hail

freezing rain

wet snow

snow

❄️

hailstorm

rainfall

slob

sloven

slush

graupel

ice pellets

ice storm

shower sleet

ice rain

bad weather

frozen rain

foul weather

heel

jerk

rain

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Traduccions

aguanieve

Schneeregen

nevischio

grésil

granizo

Graupeln

Graupel

acquaneve

deszcz ze śniegiem

χιονόνερο

grésiller

neige fondue

graupeln

χιονόβροχο

ijzel