la
feminine
/ɡlas/
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Translation
ice, ice cream, mirror
Word origin
From Vulgar Latin glacia, from Latin glacies ('ice'). The same root gives English glacier and glacial.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- glacies
- English cognates
- glacier, glacial
Grammar
Genderfeminine
Pluralglaces
Examples
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Do you want a strawberry or chocolate ice cream?
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Careful, there is ice on the road this morning.
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She looks at herself in the mirror before going out.
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The children want an ice cream after lunch.
, couverte .
Careful, the road is covered in ice this morning.
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