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

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Examples

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Do you want a strawberry or chocolate ice cream?

, .

Careful, there is ice on the road this morning.

She looks at herself in the mirror before going out.

The children want an ice cream after lunch.

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Careful, the road is covered in ice this morning.

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This word is part of lesson 21.