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Frost
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frost fröst
English
<dab>
Etymology
English, en de -, en sv - and en da - surname, all from the noun en frost.
Pronunciation
en ɒst 1
en ɔːst 1
Proper noun
~
en.
en Alex Baumhardt Oregon Rep. Bonamici among electeds inexplicably locked out of U.S. Education Department w:Oregon Capital Chronicle https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/07/oregon-rep-bonamici-among-electeds-inexplicably-locked-out-of-u-s-education-department-friday/ 2025-02-07 A video filmed and shared on the social media site Bluesky by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, also a Democrat, shows Hairfield outside the building and several officers from the federal Department of Homeland Security behind the doors, labeled “All Access Entrance.” https://web.archive.org/web/20250305235044/http://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/07/oregon-rep-bonamici-among-electeds-inexplicably-locked-out-of-u-s-education-department-friday/
en number of places c/USA:
en ucomm co/Livingston Parish s/Louisiana.
en twp co/Clare County s/Michigan.
en minor city co/Faribault County s/Minnesota.
en ucomm co/Athens County s/Ohio.
en minor city co/Navarro County s/Texas.
en ucomm co/Pocahontas County s/West Virginia.
Derived terms
en Frostian
See also
en Jack Frost
Anagrams
en forst forts frots
German
Etymology
de :inh gmh:vrost<ety:inh<goh:frost>>
From de gmh vrost, from de goh frost, from de gmw-pro *frost, from de gem-pro *frustaz. Cognate with nl vorst, en frost, is frost.
Pronunciation
de /frɔst/
de [frɔst] Austria,and,Switzerland
de [fʁɔst] Germany
de De-Frost.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m,(e)s,^e
frost; freezing weather weather conditions below 0 °C
frost; ice; all the natural phenomena caused by such weather collectively
a sensation of cold, especially due to illness
Usage notes
Though de Frost is commonly used for layers of ice or hard snow, it does not specifically refer to the kind of minute ice crystals known as en frost in English. For that see de Reif.
Declension
m,(e)s,^e
Derived terms
de Bodenfrost Dauerfrost frostig Frostbeule Frostschaden Schüttelfrost
Further reading
Plautdietsch
Etymology
From pdt gml vrost, from pdt osx frost, from pdt gmw-pro *frost, from pdt gem-pro *frustaz.
Noun
pdt noun m
frost
Derived terms
pdt frostijch
pdt 1-syllable words