iceberg

Borrowed from Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) +‎ berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪsbɜːɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪsbɝɡ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪsbɜː(ɹ)ɡ
• Hyphenation: ice‧berg

iceberg (plural icebergs)

1. (obsolete) The seaward end of a glacier. [18th–19th c.]
2. A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from 19th c.]

   The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.

3. (US, slang) An aloof person. [from 19th c.]
4. (figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.
   • 2013, “How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back”, in The Economist‎:

     He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.

• → Azerbaijani: aysberq
• → French: iceberg
• → Spanish: iceberg
• → Portuguese: iceberg, icebergue, aicebergue
• → Turkish: aysberg
• → Welsh: eisberg

• freeboard
• growler
• melt pond

• iceberg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Icebergs on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “iceberg”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Borrowed from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

• IPA^(key): /ajs.bɛʁɡ/, /is.bɛʁɡ/, /ajz.bɛʁɡ/, /iz.bɛʁɡ/, /ajs.bœʁɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁɡ
• Homophone: icebergs

iceberg m (plural icebergs)

1. iceberg

• partie émergée de l’iceberg
• partie visible de l’iceberg
• sommet de l’iceberg

• “iceberg”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

iceberg m (plural icebergs)

1. iceberg

Unadapted borrowing from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.zberɡ/, /ˈajˌzbɛrɡ/[1]
• Rhymes: -ajzberɡ, -ɛrɡ

iceberg m (invariable)

1. iceberg

• punta dell'iceberg (“tip of the iceberg”)

• ghiaccio (“ice”)

• icebergue, aicebergue (prescribed)

Unadapted borrowing from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

iceberg m (plural icebergs)

1. iceberg (huge mass of floating ice)

Borrowed from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /iθeˈbeɾ/ [i.θeˈβ̞eɾ], /iθeˈbeɾɡ/ [i.θeˈβ̞eɾɣ̞]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /iseˈbeɾ/ [i.seˈβ̞eɾ], /iseˈbeɾɡ/ [i.seˈβ̞eɾɣ̞]
  • Rhymes: -eɾ, -eɾɡ
  • Syllabification: i‧ce‧berg
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, also) /ˈaisbeɾɡ/ [ˈai̯z.β̞eɾɣ̞]
  • Rhymes: -aisbeɾɡ

iceberg m (plural icebergs)

1. iceberg

   Synonym: témpano de hielo

   la punta del iceberg ― the tip of the iceberg

• “iceberg”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014