different between snow vs virga

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English sn?w (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóyg??os (“snow”), from the root *sneyg??-.

Cognate with Scots snaw (“snow”), West Frisian snie (“snow”), Dutch sneeuw (“snow”), German Schnee (“snow”), Danish sne (“snow”), Norwegian snø (“snow”), Swedish snö (“snow”), Icelandic snjór (“snow”), Latin nix (“snow”), Russian ???? (sneg), Ancient Greek ???? (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”), Sanskrit ????? (snéha, “oil, grease”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sn?, IPA^(key): /sn??/, [sn???]
• (US) enPR: sn?, IPA^(key): /sno?/, [sno??]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)

1. (uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
   • 1928, A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner,

     The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest.

2. (uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
   • 2008, Neal Asher, "Alien Archaeology"

     Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow ...

3. (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.

   We have had several heavy snows this year.

4. (uncountable) A shade of the color white.

5. (uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.

   Synonym: shash

6. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
   • 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

     Besides, if it wasn't poison, it might be 'snow' or something.

Synonyms

• (cocaine): blow

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

snow (third-person singular simple present snows, present participle snowing, simple past and past participle snowed)

1. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.

   It is snowing.

   It started to snow.

2. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
3. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.

Usage notes

• In older texts and still in dialects, the past tense snew and past participle snown may be encountered.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

• Brunson, Doyle (1978) Super/System: A course in power poker, B&G Publishing Company

Etymology 2

From Low German Snaue, or Dutch snaauw, from Low German Snau (“a snout, a beak”). See snout.

Noun

snow (plural snows)

1. (nautical) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

Anagrams

• nows, owns, sow'n, sown, wons

Middle English

Alternative forms

• snaw, snowe, snawe, snow?, sno?, snogh, snou

Etymology

From Old English sn?w, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /sn?u?/
• IPA^(key): /sn?u?/

Noun

snow (plural snowes)

1. snow (frozen water as precipitation, either while falling or once landed)
2. snow-white (a snowy white)
3. The temperature where snow appears.
4. A blanket of snow; a snowing.

Derived terms

• snewen
• snow whit
• snowen
• snowisshe
• snowy

Descendants

• English: snow
• Scots: snaw
• Yola: sneow, sneew, snowe

References

• “snou, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?no/, [ez?no]

• IPA^(key): /es?nou/, [ez?nou?]

Noun

snow m (uncountable)

1. snowboarding

Derived terms

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virga (“rod”). Doublet of verge.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vûr?g?, IPA^(key): /?v????/

Noun

virga (countable and uncountable, plural virgas or virgae)

1. (music) A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
2. (meteorology, countable) A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
3. (measurement, countable) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.

Synonyms

• (musical note): virgula

Translations

See also

• virga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “virga” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

• gravi-

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?vi?.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bir.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vi?.?a/

Noun

virga f (plural virgues)

1. (meteorology) virga

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virg? +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vir?a/
• Hyphenation: vir?ga
• Rhymes: -ir?a

Adjective

virga (accusative singular virgan, plural virgaj, accusative plural virgajn)

1. virgin, virginal

Derived terms

Estonian

Adjective

virga

1. genitive singular of virk

Interlingua

Etymology

Italian verga, French verge, Spanish verga, and Portuguese virga.

Noun

virga (plural virgas)

1. rod
2. (nautical) yard
3. (vulgar) dick

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin virga.

Noun

virga f

1. whip
2. strap

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wizg?, probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh? (“flexible rod or stick”). Possibly cognate with Proto-Germanic *wiskaz (“bundle of hay or straw, wisp”). From Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to produce, procreate”), or alternatively from a stem *wey?s- (see *wey?-). Regardless, it is probably a doublet of viscum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?ir.?a/, [?u??r?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vir.?a/, [?vir??]

Noun

virga f (genitive virgae); first declension

1. twig, young shoot
2. rod, switch for flogging.
3. staff, walking stick
4. wand (magical)
5. (figuratively) penis, cervix

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• virga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• virga in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• virga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• virga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• virga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi??a/, [?bi?.??a]

Adjective

virga f sg

1. feminine singular of virgo