Where does “glaciate” come from?
glaciate (English) comes from Latin glaciātus, from Latin glacio, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
glaciate (English): To cover with ice or a glacier; To erode with a...
Definitions
- To cover with ice or a glacier; To erode with a...
Ancestry of “glaciate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | glaciātus | frozen |
| 2 | Latin | glacio | I freeze |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |
Words derived from “glaciate”