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ice (v.)[ice 词源字典]: c. 1400, ysen, "cover with ice," from ice (n.). Related: Iced; icing.[ice etymology, ice origin, 英语词源]
ice cream (n.): 1744, earlier iced cream (1680s), from ice (n.) + cream (n.).
Ice-Capade (n.): 1941, originally a film title, from ice (n.) + play on escapade.
ice-cold (adj.): Old English is-calde; see ice (n.) + cold (adj.).
ice-skate (v.): 1690s, from ice (n.) + skate (n.2). The verb usually was simply skate until the advent of roller-skating mid-18c. made distinction necessary.
ice-water (n.): 1722, from ice (n.) + water (n.1).
iceberg (n.): 1774, partial loan-translation of Dutch ijsberg, literally "ice mountain," from ijs "ice" (see ice (n.)) + berg "mountain" (see barrow (n.2)). An earlier term was sea-hill (1690s). Phrase tip of the iceberg, in a figurative sense, first recorded 1962. Iceberg lettuce attested from 1893.
icebox (n.): also ice-box, 1839, from ice (n.) + box (n.).
iceman (n.): 1844, from ice (n.) + man (n.).
ichneumon (n.): 1570s, originally a weasel-like animal in Egypt, Latinized from Greek ikhneumon, literally "searcher, tracker," perhaps because it hunts crocodile eggs, from ikhneuein "hunt for, track," from ikhnos "a track, footstep, trace, clue," of unknown origin. Used by Aristotle for a species of wasp that hunts spiders (a sense in English from 1650s).
ichor (n.): 1630s, from Greek ikhor, of unknown origin, possibly from a non-Indo-European language. The fluid that serves for blood in the veins of the gods. Related: Ichorous.
ichthyology (n.): 1640s, Modern Latin, from Greek ikhthys "fish" + -ology. Related: Ichthyologist.
Ichthyosaur (n.): extinct reptile, 1830, Modern Latin, from Greek ikhthys "fish" + sauros "lizard" (see -saurus).
ichthyosis (n.): 1815, Modern Latin, from Greek ikhthys "fish" + -osis.
icicle (n.): early 14c., isykle, from is "ice" + ikel "icicle," from Old English gicel "icicle, ice" (rel. to cylegicel "cold ice"), from Proto-Germanic *jekilaz (cognates: Old Norse jaki "piece of ice," diminutive jökull "icicle, ice, glacier;" Old High German ihilla "icicle"), from PIE *yeg- "ice." Dialectal ickle "icicle" survived into 20c.
icing (n.): 1769 in the confectionary sense, verbal noun of ice (v.). Earlier in this sense was simple ice (1723). Meaning "process of becoming covered with ice" is from 1881.
Icknield Way: prehistoric trackway from Norfolk to Dorset, Old English Icenhylte (903), of unknown meaning and origin. Name transferred 12c. to the Roman road from Burton on the Water to Templeborough.
icky (adj.): 1935, American English, probably from icky-boo (c. 1920) "sickly, nauseated," probably baby talk elaboration of sick. Originally a swing lover's term for more sentimental jazz music; in general use from 1938.
icon (n.): also ikon, 1570s, "image, figure, representation," from Late Latin icon, from Greek eikon "likeness, image, portrait," related to eikenai "be like, look like," of unknown origin. Eastern Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded 1982.
iconic (adj.): 1650s, from Late Latin iconicus, from Greek eikonikos "pertaining to an image," from eikon (see icon).