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Attested from Varro onwards. The ending is -iēs(noun-forming suffix), and for the initial element compare gelū(“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel-(“to freeze”). Nevertheless, per De Vaan, there is no apparent way to derive glaciēs from the latter. Lewis & Short proposed a connection with Ancient Greek γάλα(gála, “milk”), noting also the verb γλαγάω(glagáō, “to be milky”). The implication that glaciēs is related to lac(“milk”) is neither semantically nor phonologically convincing.
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⇒ Vulgar Latin: *glaciārium (see there for further descendants)
References
^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, § V, page 323
^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “glacies”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 275
^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, § V, page 323