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Webster 1913 Edition


Hiver

Hiv′er

,
Noun.
One who collects bees into a hive.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hiver

HI'VER

,
Noun.
One that collects bees into a hive.

Definition 2024


hiver

hiver

English

Noun

hiver (plural hivers)

  1. One who collects bees into a hive.
    • 1820, A. B. Herbert, ‎A. P. Beresford, ‎Alexander Dedekind, Of Bees (page 516)
      The hiver must have his face and hands defended, as above-mentioned, and accompanied by a person holding a chafing-dish, with a coal fire, covered with moist peat, to make the greater smoke []

French

Etymology

From Middle French hyver, from Old French hyveir, yver, iver, from Latin hībernum [tempus] (a borrowing, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française, and first documented in 1282), whence also Italian inverno and Spanish invierno. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-, from *ǵʰey-

Pronunciation

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /i.vɛʁ/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): [i.væɛ̯ʁ], [i.vaɛ̯ʁ]
  • (Quebec, Gaspésie) IPA(key): [i.veːʁ]
  • (Louisiana) IPA(key): [i.væ(ɾ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɛʁ
  • Homophone: hivers

Noun

hiver m (plural hivers)

  1. winter

Related terms

See also

Seasons in French · saisons (layout · text)
printemps (spring) été (summer) automne (autumn) hiver (winter)

Yola

Noun

hiver

  1. heifer

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)