different between glacier vs cryosphere

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal glacier, derived from glace + -ier, (cf. also Medieval Latin glaciarium), derived from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glacies (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??læs.j?/, /??le?s.j?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??le?.??/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /??le?.??/, /??le?s.j?/

Noun

glacier (plural glaciers)

1. (geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• iceberg

Further reading

• glacier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cargile, gracile

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal glacier, derived from glace + -ier, (cf. also Medieval Latin glaciarium), derived from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glacies (“ice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.sje/

Noun

glacier m (plural glaciers)

1. glacier
2. ice cream parlor

   Synonyms: glacerie, crémerie, bar laitier

See also

• glace

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• giclera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??la.ki.e?r/, [????äkie?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??la.t??i.er/, [??l??t??i?r]

Noun

glaci?r ? (genitive glacieris); third declension

1. (New Latin) glacier
   • 2015, Pope Franciscus, “Laudato si’. [1], Litterae Encyclicae, Vatican:

     Glacierum liquatio tam in polis quam in regionibus eximiae altitudinis gravissimum periculum denuntiat ne gasium methanum exeat […]

     The melting of glaciers at the poles as much as at particular high regions summons the grave danger that methane gas may be released […]

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -?r).

Verb

glacier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of glaci?

English

Etymology

cryo- +? -sphere

Noun

cryosphere (plural cryospheres)

1. All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.

   Meronyms: glacier, ice cap, ice sheet, permafrost, sea ice, snow

   Coordinate terms: hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere

   • 2009, Olav Slaymaker, Richard Kelly, The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), preface:

     This book attempts to deal integratively with all elements of the cryosphere in the context of a changing global environment. Not only is that global environment changing with respect to climate, but the accelerating pressures on the environment from anthropogenic activity are complicating our understanding of cryospheric change.

Derived terms

• cryohemisphere
• cryospheric
• cryospherically

Further reading

• cryosphere on Wikipedia.Wikipedia