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Meaning of iceberg



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

iceberg
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It is the name given to a large mass of ice that breaks off from a polar cap and floats adrift in cold seas. Translate ice mountain.

  



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Large mass of polar ice floating in the sea, although most of its volume is underwater. Spanish takes it from English, with the same spelling and pronunciation (áisberg), but has a Germanic origin from the Danish ijs ("ice") berg ("mountain, elevation of terrain").

  










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