hiver

From 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 iver, from Late Latin hībernum.

• ^{(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 hayfre, from Old English hēahfore.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiːvər/

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