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means A sweetened, flavored frozen dessert made by churning cream (or a similar fatty base) with sugar and air until it sets soft and scoopable.

from 'Cream' goes back through Old French 'cresme' to Late Latin 'crama', possibly blended with ecclesiastical Latin 'chrisma' (anointing oil) — so even the word 'cream' may have a faint whiff of sacred grease. 'Ice' is just old Germanic plainness, cognate with words for frozen water across northern Europe. The two words were simply mashed together once cooks in the 1600s–1700s figured out how to freeze sweetened cream using ice-and-salt mixtures, a trick that spread from royal European kitchens outward until it needed no fancier name than what it literally was: iced cream.