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 […]

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-

• ^{(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

• hibernal
• hibernation
• hivernal
• hiverner

• “hiver” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

hiver

1. heifer

• 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)