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glacies

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Attested from Varro onwards. The ending is -iēs (noun-forming suffix), and for the initial element compare gelū (“frost”),[1][2] from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”). Nevertheless, per De Vaan, there is no apparent way to derive glaciēs from the latter.[3] Lewis & Short proposed a connection with Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”), noting also the verb γλαγάω (glagáō, “to be milky”).[4] The implication that glaciēs is related to lac (“milk”) is neither semantically nor phonologically convincing.

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Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

glaciēs f (genitive glaciēī); fifth declension

  1. ice
  2. (figuratively) hardness

Declension edit

Fifth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative glaciēs glaciēs
Genitive glaciēī glaciērum
Dative glaciēī glaciēbus
Accusative glaciem glaciēs
Ablative glaciē glaciēbus
Vocative glaciēs glaciēs

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Direct reflexes:

  • Asturian: llaz
  • Leonese: yaz

Reflexes of an assumed *glacium/-a (compare Late Latin glacia):

References edit

  1. ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, § V, page 323
  2. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “glacies”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[2] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 275
  3. ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎[3], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, § V, page 323
  4. ^ “glacies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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