frost

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
2. (countable, uncountable) The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
5. (countable, uncountable) A shade of white, like that of frost.
6. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A disappointment; a cheat.
7. (countable, uncountable) A kind of light diffuser.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cover with frost.
2. (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
3. (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
4. (informal, transitive) To anger or annoy.
5. (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
6. (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

Concetti

gelo

gelata

brina

glassare

freddo

🥶

galaverna

coprirsi di brina

gelare

brinata

freddo intenso

calaverna

calabrosa

ghiaccio

maturo

brinare

sinonimi

freeze

hoarfrost

rime

ice

🧊

cold

🥶

hoar

coldness

dew

freezing cold

snow

❄️

glaze

frostiness

frigidity

chill

nip

chilliness

icicles

iciness

icing

gelidity

coolness

frozeness

bitterness

intensely cold weather

night frost

hoar frost

glaciation

freezing

bitter cold

unfriendliness

white frost

bespeckle

freeze out

freezing weather

frost-bite

ground frost

freeze down

mild weather

dull polish

hard rime

bespot

frozen subsoil

biting cold

chafe

cold wave

congelation

crystallized

drizzle

enrobe

failure

Traduzioni

gel

Frost

helada

givre

geada

gelée

vorst

gelu

escarcha

glaçada

gelada

παγετός

πάγος

Reif

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/fɹɒst/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: frost

Ereditato da inglese antico: forst

Affine frisone occidentale: froast

Affine olandese: vorst

Affine tedesco: Frost

Affine svedese: frost

Affine norvegese: frost

Affine islandese: frost

Affine latino: pruīna

In summary

From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.