英语词汇glaciation的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	glaciation
词源	glaciation n. 1640s, "act of freezing," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin glaciare "to freeze," from glacies "ice" (probably from a suffixed form of PIE root gel- "cold; to freeze"). Geological sense of "presence of a mass of ice covering a region" is from 1863. Entries linking to glaciation* *gel- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "cold; to freeze." It forms all or part of: chill; cold; congeal; cool; gel; gelatine; gelatinous; gelato; gelid; glace; glacial; glaciate; glaciation; glacier; glaciology; glacis; jell; jelly. It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Latin gelare "to freeze," gelu "frost," glacies "ice;" Old English cald "cold, cool," German kalt. updated on November 13, 2017
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glaciation n.