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

• hibernal
• hibernation
• hivernal
• hiverner

See also

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)