Added 10 October 2026
snow-white
adjective
In Latin: niveus Wiktionary
adjective Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about snow-white at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
Origin
From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”).
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