sleet

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

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

Verb

To be in a state in which sleet is falling.

Concetti

nevischio

acquaneve

neve tonda

pioggia

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piovosità

pioggia mista a neve

sinonimi

hail

freezing rain

wet snow

snow

❄️

hailstorm

rainfall

slob

sloven

slush

graupel

ice pellets

ice storm

shower sleet

ice rain

bad weather

frozen rain

foul weather

heel

jerk

rain

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Traduzioni

aguanieve

Schneeregen

grésil

aiguaneu

granizo

Graupeln

Graupel

χιονόνερο

grésiller

neige fondue

Eisregen

smeltende sneeuw

ijzel

graupeln

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/sliːt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: slete

Ereditato da inglese antico: *slēte

Affine danese: slud

Affine basso tedesco: Sloot

Affine tedesco: Schloße

In summary

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.