glacier

Significado (Inglés)

1. A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
2. An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.

Conceptos

glaciar

helero

ventisquero

glaciares

Sinónimos

iceberg

floe

glacer

glaciation

growler

ice

🧊

icecap

snowdrift

ice sheet

ice stream

avalanche

glacial action

Traducciones

glacier

Gletscher

gletsjer

buzul

Kees

Ferner

ferner

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɡlæs.jə/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.

Oraciones

Anyone planning to travel on a glacier should be trained in crevasse rescue .

Cualquiera que planee viajar en un glaciar debe ser entrenado en el rescate de Crevasse.