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glacia
Vulgar Latin · medieval
"ice"
ice, from glacies (ice)
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glacier
French · 1700s
"a slow-moving mass of ice"
settled in French for a slow-moving mass of ice
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glacier
English · 1740s
"a large, slow-moving mass of ice"
adopted directly for the massive body of slowly moving ice
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