different between liqueur vs wine

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?n, IPA^(key): /wa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n
• Homophone: whine (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English w?n, from Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num. Doublet of vine.

Noun

wine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)

1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes.

   Wine is stronger than beer.

   She ordered some wine for the meal.

   • 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:

     dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes page 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
3. (countable) A serving of wine.

   I'd like three beers and two wines, please.

4. (uncountable) A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.

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Descendants

Translations

Verb

wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

1. (transitive) To entertain with wine.
   • 1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159:

     Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;

2. (intransitive) To drink wine.

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

A variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind.

Noun

wine (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialect) Wind.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wine, from earlier wini.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?win(?)/

Noun

wine (plural wines or wine) (Early Middle English)

1. friend
2. relative

Related terms

• wiþerwine

References

• “wine, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

wine

1. Alternative form of wyn (“wine”)

Etymology 3

Verb

wine

1. Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Etymology 4

Noun

wine

1. Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• win

Etymology

From Old High German wini.

Noun

wine m

1. friend

Old English

Alternative forms

• wini

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wini.

Cognate with Old Frisian wine, Old Saxon wini, Old High German wini, Old Norse vinr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin venus, Proto-Celtic *wenja- (Old Irish fine).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wi.ne/

Noun

wine m

1. (poetic) friend

Usage notes

Used as a second element of many personal names. It could be appended to mythical creatures (Ælfwine "elf friend," Entwine "giant friend"), animals (?owine "horse friend," Earnwine "eagle friend," Seolhwine "seal friend," L?owine "lion friend," G?swine "goose friend," Eoforwine "boar friend," Wulfwine "wolf friend," Hundwine "dog friend"), inanimate objects (Seaxwine "knife friend," Goldwine "gold friend," Ealuwine "ale friend"), locations (Centwine "friend of Kent"), features of nature (S?wine "sea friend," Wealdwine "forest friend"), kinds of people (Wealhwine "friend of foreigners," Cnihtwine "friend of boys"), or abstract concepts (M?dwine "mind friend"). It was also often used with adjectives, usually praising the owner of the name, as in Beorhtwine ("bright friend"), Ealdwine ("old friend"), and D?orwine ("dear friend").

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: wine
  • ? English: (a component found in names – Baldwin, Godwin, Irwin, etc.)

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “wine”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.

Unami

Etymology

• /win/: of snow, snowy
• /e/: verb marker
• /-w/: third person suffix

Verb

wine (inanimate intransitive)

1. (inanimate, intransitive) it snows, it is snowing

Related terms

• kun

References

• Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) , “wine”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project