different between claret vs merlot

English

Etymology

From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum vinum, from Latin clarus.

Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæ??t/, /?klæ??t/ IPA^(key): /kl????t/
• (hyperforeign) IPA^(key): /?klæ??/, /?klæ??/, /kl????/

Noun

claret (countable and uncountable, plural clarets)

1. (chiefly Britain) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.
   • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

     The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
2. A deep purplish-red colour, like that of the wine.

3. (Britain, colloquial) Blood.

Synonyms

• (wine): traditional dry red (Australia)

Translations

See also

• (regional wine): hock, sack, tent

Adjective

claret (comparative more claret, superlative most claret)

1. Of a deep purplish-red colour, like that of claret.

Derived terms

• claret cup
• claret-coloured

Verb

claret (third-person singular simple present clarets, present participle clareting, simple past and past participle clareted)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To drink claret.
   • 1814, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

     We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. There was a night for you!

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

• Paper from the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia on generic wine terminology
• Oxford Companion to Wine – Claret

References

Anagrams

• arclet, cartel, lacert, rectal

Latin

Verb

cl?ret

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of cl?r?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clerat, clerote, cleret

Etymology

Old French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum (vinum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klar?t/

Noun

claret (plural clarets)

1. clary (Salvia sclarea)
2. clary water

References

• “claret, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Adjective

claret

1. (referring to wine) pink, pink-purple, light

Descendants

• English: claret

References

• “claret, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

English

Noun

merlot (usually uncountable, plural merlots)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Merlot

Anagrams

• Molter, Romelt, molter

Spanish

Etymology

French Merlot

Noun

merlot m (plural merlots)

1. merlot