hiver

hive +‎ -er

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 […]

Inherited 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. Closely related to Catalan hivern. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-, from *ǵʰey-.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.vɛʁ/

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• (Quebec, formal) IPA^(key): [i.vɛːʁ]
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): [i.veɪ̯ʁ], [i.vaɛ̯ʁ]

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [i.væ(ɾ)]

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁ
• Homophone: hivers

hiver m (plural hivers)

1. winter

• Louisiana Creole: livè, ivèr, livær

• “hiver” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “hiver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Middle English heyfer, from Old English hēahfore.

• IPA^(key): /hiːˈviː/

hiver

1. heifer

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46