hiver
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Noun edit
hiver (plural hivers)
- One who collects bees into a hive.
- 1820, A. B. Herbert, A. P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Of Bees, page 516:
- The hiver must have his face and hands defended, as above-mentioned, and accompanied by a person holding a chafing-dish, with a coal fire, covered with moist peat, to make the greater smoke […]
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French hyver, from Old French hyveir, yver, iver, from Latin hībernum (tempus) (a borrowing, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française, and first documented in 1282), whence also Italian inverno and Spanish invierno. Closely related to Catalan hivern. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-, from *ǵʰey-.
Pronunciation edit
- (mute h) IPA(key): /i.vɛʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file)
- (Quebec, formal) IPA(key): [i.vɛːʁ]
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): [i.veɪ̯ʁ], [i.vaɛ̯ʁ]
- (Louisiana) IPA(key): [i.væ(ɾ)]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛʁ
- Homophone: hivers
Noun edit
hiver m (plural hivers)
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Seasons in French · saisons (layout · text) · category | |||
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printemps (“spring”) | été (“summer”) | automne (“autumn”) | hiver (“winter”) |
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Further reading edit
- “hiver” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “hiver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English heyfer, from Old English hēahfore.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hiver
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46