glace

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See also: Glace, glacé, Glacé, and glacê

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French glace, from Old French glace (“ice", also "glass, mirror, radiance”), from Vulgar Latin *glacium/a, from Latin glaciēs. The senses of "glass, mirror, radiance" were possibly derived from Frankish *glas (“glass”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlas/
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  • Rhymes: -as

Noun

glace f (plural glaces)

  1. ice
  2. ice cream
    Synonym: crème glacée
  3. glass
    Synonyms: verre, vitre
  4. (New England) mirror
    Synonym: miroir

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Italian: glassa
  • → Luxembourgish: Glace
  • → Moroccan Arabic: لجلاس (laḡlas)
  • → Swedish: glass
  • → Swiss German: Glace

Verb

glace

  1. inflection of glacer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Friulian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *glacium/a, from Latin glaciēs.

Pronunciation

Noun

glace f (plural glacis)

  1. ice

Derived terms

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

glace

  1. Alternative form of glas

Etymology 2

Verb

glace

  1. Alternative form of glasen (verb)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

glace m (definite singular glaceen, indefinite plural glaceer, definite plural glaceene)

  1. alternative spelling of glacé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

glace m (definite singular glaceen, indefinite plural glacear, definite plural glaceane)

  1. alternative spelling of glacé

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *glacium/a, from Latin glaciēs.

Pronunciation

  • (early) IPA(key): /ˈɡlat͡sə/, /ˈɡlai̯-/, (northern:) /-t͡ʃə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /ˈɡlasə/, /ˈɡlɛ-/, (northern:) /-ʃə/

Noun

glace oblique singular, f (oblique plural glaces, nominative singular glace, nominative plural glaces)

  1. ice

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French glacé.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: gla‧ce

Noun

glace f (plural glaces)

  1. frosting, icing (a sugary coating for cakes and other baked goods)
    Synonyms: glacê, glacé

References

  1. ^ “glacé” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “glace” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Swedish

Noun

glace c

  1. Archaic spelling of glass (“ice cream”).
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