hoar frost

Senso (Inglese)

1. (countable, uncountable) Originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces.
2. (countable, specifically, uncountable) Water vapour which has undergone deposition or desublimation (“transformation directly into ice crystals without first turning into liquid water”) when the air is cold and moist to form a white deposit on exposed surfaces.

Concetti

brina

sinonimi

white frost

rime

hoarfrost

frost

hoar-frost

dew

snow

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Traduzioni

πάχνη

άσπρος αποτυχία

gelée blanche

pruina

rijm

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈhɔː fɹɒst/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: hore frost

Ereditato da inglese antico: hār

Ereditato da inglese antico: frost

In summary

PIE word
*prustós
From Middle English hore frost, horfrost [and other forms], from hor (“grey; greyish-white”, adjective) (from Old English hār (“grey”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness; shadow”)) + frost (“cold spell, freezing weather, frost; hoar-frost; rime”) (from Old English frost, forst, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *prustós (“frost”)). The English word is analysable as hoar (“greyish-white; white”, adjective) + frost.