Added 7 October 2026
ice
/aɪs/ symbol
In Latin: glaciēs Wiktionary
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noun
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Water in frozen (solid) form.
He said, “Where we’re at right now was back in 2008 all covered with ice. From here to there at the side, the glacier shrank about 20 to 30 meters.”
- Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
verb
Origin
From Middle English hyse, hyys, ice, ijs, is, yce, ys, yys, from Old English īs, from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”).
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