Etymology

glacious

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Today it means: Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy. Full definition →

French glacieux ← Latin glaciēs
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromglaciēs“ice”
  2. French · derived fromglacieux
  3. English todayglacious

From obsolete French glacieux, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”).

Words from the same roots

Latinglaciēs all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.