sleet

Signification (Anglais)

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

grésil

grésiller

neige fondue

verglas

neige fondante

pluie mêlée de neige

chute de neige fondue

pluie neigeuse

neige mouillée

wet snow

shower sleet

ice rain

bad weather

frozen rain

foul weather

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sliːt/

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.