Frost

See also: frost and fröst

English

Etymology

English, German, Swedish and Danish surname, all from the noun frost.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒst
• Rhymes: -ɔːst

Proper noun

Frost (countable and uncountable, plural Frosts)

1. A surname.
   • 2025 February 7, Alex Baumhardt, “Oregon Rep. Bonamici among electeds inexplicably locked out of U.S. Education Department”, in Oregon Capital Chronicle‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2025:

     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.”

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
   2. A township in Clare County, Michigan.
   3. A minor city in Faribault County, Minnesota.
   4. An unincorporated community in Athens County, Ohio.
   5. A minor city in Navarro County, Texas.
   6. An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Derived terms

• Frostian

See also

• Jack Frost

Anagrams

• forts, frots

German

Etymology

From Middle High German vrost, from Old High German frost, from Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz. Cognate with Dutch vorst, English frost, Icelandic frost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frɔst/
  • (Austria and Switzerland) IPA^(key): [frɔst]
  • (Germany) IPA^(key): [fʁɔst]

• Audio (Berlin, Germany):

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Noun

Frost m (strong, genitive Frostes or Frosts, plural Fröste)

1. frost; freezing weather (weather conditions below 0 °C)
2. frost; ice; all the natural phenomena caused by such weather collectively
3. a sensation of cold, especially due to illness

Usage notes

• Though 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 frost in English. For that see Reif.

Declension

Declension of Frost [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Frost	die	Fröste
genitive	eines	des	Frostes, Frosts	der	Fröste
dative	einem	dem	Frost, Froste1	den	Frösten
accusative	einen	den	Frost	die	Fröste

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Bodenfrost
• Dauerfrost
• Frostbeule
• frostig
• Frostschaden
• Schüttelfrost

Further reading

• “Frost” in Duden online
• “Frost”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German vrost, from Old Saxon frost, from Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz.

Noun

Frost m

1. frost

Derived terms

• frostijch