different between cabernet vs cupboard

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabernet.

Noun

cabernet (countable and uncountable, plural cabernets)

1. Cabernet Sauvignon

Translations

Anagrams

• racebent

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabernet.

Noun

cabernet (plural cabernets)

1. Cabernet Sauvignon, a variety of grape
2. wine made from Cabernet Sauvignon

Synonyms

• Cabernet Sauvignon

French

Etymology

From the Médoc dialect of southwestern France, but of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly Late Latin caput nigrum, in this sense "black vine."

Pronunciation

Noun

cabernet m (plural cabernets)

1. Cabernet (grape variety)

Derived terms

• cabernet Carbon
• cabernet Cortis
• cabernet Cubin
• cabernet Dorio
• cabernet Dorsa
• cabernet franc
• cabernet Mitos
• cabernet-sauvignon

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: cabernet
• ? Catalan: cabernet
• ? Dutch: cabernet
• ? English: cabernet
• ? Japanese: ???? (kaberune)
• ? Polish: cabernet
• ? Romanian: cabernet
• ? Russian: ??????? (kaberne)
• ? Ukrainian: ??????? (kaberne)

Romanian

Etymology

From French cabernet.

Noun

cabernet n (uncountable)

1. Cabernet Sauvignon

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• (all obsolete): cobbarde, cobbourd, coberde, cobord, copbord, copborde, copbourd, copbourde, copburd, copburde, couborde, cowbard, cubbard, cubbarde, cubberd, cubbert, cubboard, cubboorde, cubbord, cubborde, cupbert, cupbard, cupboarde, cupboord, cupbord, cupborde, cupbourd, cupbourde, cupburd, cupburde, cuppord, cupporde

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?b?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?b?d/
• Rhymes: -?b?(?)d
• Hyphenation: cup?board

Etymology 1

From Middle English cuppeborde, cupbord. Equivalent to cup +? board. Phonetic variants show that the /p/ in the original forms had assimilated to the present-day /b/ by the 16th century; the etymological spelling has, however, dominated from the 18th century.

Noun

cupboard (plural cupboards)

1. (obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. [14th–18th c.]
2. (obsolete) Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate. [16th–19th c.]
   • a. 1529, John Skelton, Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?; published in John Skelton; Alexander Dyce, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: With Notes, and Some Account of the Author and His Writings, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. In Two Volumes., volume II, London: Thomas Rodd, Great Newport Street, 1843, OCLC 733571702, page 54, lines 897–904:

     But howe comme to pas, / Your cupbord that was / Is tourned to glasse, / From syluere to brasse, / From golde to pewter, / Or els to a newter, / To copper, to tyn, / To lede, or alcumyn?

3. A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
4. (obsolete) Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
   • c. 1665, Roxburghe Ballads; published as J[oseph] W[oodfall] Ebsworth, editor, The Roxburghe Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts, volume VI, Hertford: Printed for the Ballad Society by S. Austin and Sons, 1871–1899, OCLC 13767296, page 529, lines 26–30:

     Some men they [make] love for what they can get, / And 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard; / Will sigh and will pant, seeming ready to faint, / And all for the love of the cubbard, brave boys! / And all [for the love of the Cup-board].

Synonyms

• (furniture used to display tableware): see sideboard
• (kitchen or dining-room closet): see pantry, larder

Hypernyms

• (storage built into a wall): see closet
• (storage built onto a wall): see cabinet
• (furniture used for general storage): press (Irish & Scots), wardrobe (British), closet (regional US)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From cupboard (noun).

Verb

cupboard (third-person singular simple present cupboards, present participle cupboarding, simple past and past participle cupboarded)

1. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [from 16th century.]

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "cupboard, n." and "cupboard, v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1893.