névé

Senso (Inglese)

1. The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.
2. Young, granular snow on a glacier, which has been partially melted and refrozen since deposition, but has not yet turned into firn by surviving a full season of ablation.

Concetti

nevaio

sinonimi

firn

Traduzioni

névé

Firn

Schneefeld

nevero

helero

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/neɪˈveɪ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Borrowed from French névé, from the Franco-Provençal (Savoyard) term névi (“mass of snow”), from Latin nivatus "snow-cooled" (< Latin nix, nivis (“snow”)).