Translation
to glide, to slide; to slip
Word origin
A Germanic root, from German gleiten and the family that gives English glide. French glisser is a cousin by borrowing rather than descent, which is why the word looks familiar from both directions.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- gleiten
- English cognates
- glide, glissade
Examples
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The child slid on the ice.
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I slipped and fell on the stairs.
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The boat glided over the still water.
is intransitive: a thing slides, and nothing slides it. To send something sliding you need i, and if you want the accidental sense - my foot went from under me - degliti is the usual choice, with - marking the slip away from where it should have been. Skating is or, more compactly, sketi; a slide in a playground is a o, and ice that is dangerous underfoot is a. The neighbouring adjective means smooth, and the two are often in the same sentence for good reason.
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