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frost
English
Alternative forms
- froste (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with West Frisian froast (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Swedish frost (“frost”), Icelandic frost (“frost”), Latin pru?na (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??st/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /f??st/
- Rhymes: -?st, -??st
Noun
frost (countable and uncountable, plural frosts)
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 47.
- It is more probable, in almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost sometime in January, than that the weather will continue open throughout that whole month;
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 47.
- (figuratively) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- (slang, dated) A disappointment; a cheat.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
frost (third-person singular simple present frosts, present participle frosting, simple past and past participle frosted)
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To anger or annoy.
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
Derived terms
- frosting
Translations
Anagrams
- forts, frots
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse frost.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fr?st/, [f???sd?]
Noun
frost c (singular definite frosten, not used in plural form)
- frost
Declension
References
- “frost” in Den Danske Ordbog
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse frost.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fr?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
frost n (genitive singular frosts, nominative plural frost)
- frost
Declension
See also
- kuldi
Middle English
Alternative forms
- froste, forst
Etymology
From Old English frost, forst, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz, *frust?; akin to Middle Dutch vorst, Middle High German vrost, Middle Low German vrost, and Old Swedish frost.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fr?st/, /?f?rst/
Noun
frost (plural frostes)
- Cold, freezing, or frosty weather; weather that causes frost.
- Frost or rime; frozen dew or water droplets.
- Hail; precipitation below freezing temperature
- (rare, figuratively) Something with a chilling effect.
Derived terms
- frosty
Descendants
- English: frost
- Scots: frost
References
- “frost, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-31.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse frost n.
Noun
frost m (definite singular frosten)
- frost
Derived terms
- frostsikker
- frostvæske
- rimfrost
References
- “frost” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse frost n
Noun
frost m (definite singular frosten)
- frost
Derived terms
- frostsikker
- frostvæske
- rimfrost
References
- “frost” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *frust?, *frustaz, akin to Old English frost, Old Norse frost.
Noun
frost m
- frost
Descendants
- Middle High German: vrost
- Cimbrian: bròst
- German: Frost
- Luxembourgish: Frascht
- Vilamovian: fröst
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *frust?, *frustaz, akin to Old English frost, Old High German frost.
Noun
frost n
- frost
Descendants
- Icelandic: frost
- Faroese: frost, frostur m (masculine is archaic)
- Norwegian: frost
- Old Swedish: frost
- Swedish: frost
- Danish: frost
- Westrobothnian: fröyst (also via frööys (verb)), frass-
References
- frost in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse frost, from Proto-Germanic *frust?, *frustaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
frost c
- frost
Declension
Anagrams
- forst-, forts
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frosts
English
Noun
frosts
- plural of frost
Verb
frosts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frost
Swedish
Noun
frosts
- indefinite genitive singular of frost
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