different between glacial vs nunatak

English

Etymology

From French glacial, from Latin glaci?lis, from glaci?s (“ice”). The sense "slow" refers to the speed of actual glaciers, typically around 1 meter per day.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??le?.s??l/, /??le?.?(?)?l/
• Rhymes: -e???l

Adjective

glacial (comparative more glacial, superlative most glacial)

1. Of, or relating to glaciers.

   Wang Shijin is a glacier expert and director of the Yulong Snow Mountain Glacial and Environmental Observation Research Station.

2. (figuratively) Very slow.
   • 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:

     Progress on judicial reform has been glacial, meeting enormous resistance.
3. Cold and icy.

4. Having the appearance of ice.

5. (figuratively) Cool and unfriendly.

Hyponyms

Translations

Noun

glacial (plural glacials)

1. A glacial period (colloquially known as an ice age).

   Synonym: ice age

   Coordinate term: interglacial

Translations

Derived terms

• glacial till

References

Anagrams

• gallica

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?l?.si?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?la.si?al/

Adjective

glacial (masculine and feminine plural glacials)

1. glacial

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.sjal/
• Homophones: glaciale, glaciales

Adjective

glacial (feminine singular glaciale, masculine plural glaciaux, feminine plural glaciales)

1. glacial (all meanings)

Further reading

• “glacial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Adjective

glacial m or f (plural glaciais)

1. frozen, at the temperature of ice

   Synonym: xeado

2. glacial, pertaining to glaciers
3. (figuratively) frigid, chilly, not cordial

   Synonym: xélido

Related terms

• glaciación

Norman

Etymology

From Latin glaci?lis, from glaci?s (“ice”).

Adjective

glacial m

1. (Jersey) icy

Portuguese

Adjective

glacial m or f (plural glaciais, comparable)

1. glacial (cold and icy)

   Synonym: gélido

2. glacial (relating to glaciers)
3. relating to ice ages
4. (figuratively) glacial; cold (emotionally distant)

   Synonyms: frio, gélido

Romanian

Etymology

From French glacial, from Latin glacialis.

Adjective

glacial m or n (feminine singular glacial?, masculine plural glaciali, feminine and neuter plural glaciale)

1. glacial

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?la??jal/, [?la??jal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?la?sjal/, [?la?sjal]

Adjective

glacial (plural glaciales)

1. glacial
2. (figuratively) frigid, chilly, not cordial

Related terms

English

Alternative forms

• nunataq

Etymology

Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n?tæk/, /?nu?n?tæk/
• Hyphenation: nun?a?tak

Noun

nunatak (plural nunataks or nunataker)

1. A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet. [from 1870s]

Translations

See also

• monadnock

Further reading

• nunatak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kuantan

Danish

Etymology

Greenlandic nunataq

Noun

nunatak

1. nunatak

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From Greenlandic nunataq.

Noun

nunatak m (genitive singular nunataka, nominative plural nunataky, genitive plural nunatakov, declension pattern of dub)

1. nunatak

Declension

Swedish

Alternative forms

• nunatack

Etymology

From Greenlandic nunataq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???na?tak/
• Rhymes: -ak

Noun

nunatak c

1. (geology) nunatak

Declension

References

• nunatak in Svensk ordbok (SO)