different between liqueur vs aurum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??kj??/, /l??kj??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??k?/, /l??k??/

Noun

liqueur (countable and uncountable, plural liqueurs)

1. A flavoured alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol. Cordials are a type of liqueur manufactured using the infusion process as opposed to the essence and distillation processes.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cordial
• ratafia

Further reading

• liqueur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

liqueur (third-person singular simple present liqueurs, present participle liqueuring, simple past and past participle liqueured)

1. to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
2. to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution

   Every champagne has to be liqueured after its disgorgement, to replace the inevitable loss.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin liquor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.kœ?/

Noun

liqueur f (plural liqueurs)

1. alcoholic liqueur
2. (literary) drinkable liquid
3. (Canada) fizzy drink, pop
4. (obsolete) liquid
5. (Louisiana) liquor

Derived terms

• liqueur de dosage
• liqueur de tirage

Usage notes

• Liqueur and liquor are false friends: French liqueur never applies to alcoholic drinks in general.
• The Quebec use of the term is frequently targeted as an anglicism (from liquor), even though the meaning ("non-alcoholic drink") is older and has little connection to either English term.

Further reading

• “liqueur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.??m/
• Rhymes: -????m

Noun

aurum (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) gold, used in the names of various substances (see Derived terms)
2. An Italian liqueur

Derived terms

• aurum fulminans
• aurum mosacium
• aurum musivum

Descendants

• ? Malay: aurum

Latin

Alternative forms

• ausum

Etymology

Rhoticization of earlier ausum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é-h?us-óm (“gold”), from *h?ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”). Cognate with Lithuanian áuksas, Old Lithuanian ausas, Old Prussian ausis, Tocharian A wäs, Tocharian B yas?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?.rum/, [?äu?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?.rum/, [???u?rum]

Noun

aurum n (genitive aur?); second declension

1. gold (as mineral or metal)
2. gold (colour)
3. any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ring
4. lustre
5. a Golden Age

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Synonyms

• (the metal gold): chr?sos

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Balkan-Romance:
    • Aromanian: avru
    • Istro-Romanian: aur
    • Romanian: aur
  • Dalmatian: jaur, yaur, uar, vuar
• Western Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: òr, ôr
      • Ligurian: öo
      • Lombard: òr
      • Piedmontese: òr
      • Romagnol: or
    • Ocitano-Romance
      • Old Occitan: aur
        • Catalan: or
        • Occitan: aur
    • Oïl:
      • Old French: or
        • Middle French: or
          • French: or
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Friulian: aur
      • Ladin: or
      • Romansch: aur, or, ôr
  • Ibero-Romance
    • Navarro-Aragonese:
      • Aragonese: oro
    • Old Leonese:
      • Asturian: oru
      • Extremaduran: oru
      • Leonese: oru, ouru
      • Mirandese: ouro
    • Old Portuguese: ouro
      • Galician: ouro
      • Portuguese: ouro
    • Old Spanish: oro
      • Ladino: oro
      • Spanish: oro
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: oru
    • Italian: oro
    • Neapolitan: oro
    • Sicilian: oru, àuru
    • Venetian: oro
• Non-Romance:
  • ? Albanian: ar
  • ? Celtic:
    • Brythonic:
      • Breton: aour
      • Cornish: owr
      • Welsh: aur, awr
    • Old Irish: ór
      • Irish: ór
      • Manx: airh
      • Scottish Gaelic: òr
  • ? English: aurum
  • Esperanto: oro

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 63

Further reading

• aurum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aurum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aurum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aurum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• aurum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aurum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Malay

Alternative forms

• ???????

Etymology

Borrowed from English aurum, from Latin aurum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aurom], [aur?m], [?rum], [aurum]
• Rhymes: -urum, -rum, -um

Noun

aurum (Jawi spelling ???????, informal 1st possessive aurumku, impolite 2nd possessive aurummu, 3rd possessive aurumnya)

1. gold (element)

Synonyms

• emas / ????
• kencana / ??????

Old Norse

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

aurum

1. dative plural of eyrir