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English

Noun

madeira (countable and uncountable, plural madeiras)

1. Madeira (wine)

Anagrams

• Demaria

Finnish

Noun

madeira

1. Madeira (fortified wine produced on Madeira)

   Synonym: madeiraviini

Declension

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese madeira, from Latin materia. Cf. also materia.

Noun

madeira f (plural madeiras)

1. wood

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /m?.?ð?j.??/, /m?.?ðej.??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma.?de(j).??/, [m?.?d?e(??).??]
• Homophone: Madeira
• Hyphenation: ma?dei?ra

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese madeira, from Latin m?teria, from Proto-Indo-European *méh?t?r (“mother”). Cognates include Spanish madera. Doublet of matéria, a borrowing.

Alternative forms

• madeyra (obsolete)

Noun

madeira f (plural madeiras)

1. (uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)

   Synonyms: lenha, lenho, pau

2. wood (the wood of a particular species of tree)

   Synonym: pau

3. a piece of timber

   Synonym: pau

Derived terms

Related terms

Interjection

madeira!

1. Timber!; used by lumberjacks to warn others when a tree is falling down

Etymology 2

Shortening of vinho da Madeira (literally “wine of Madeira”), after the Portuguese island of Madeira.

Alternative forms

• Madeira

Noun

madeira m (uncountable)

1. a type of fortified wine produced in the island of Madeira

   Synonyms: vinho da Madeira, vinho Madeira

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

madeira

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of madeirar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of madeirar

Further reading

• madeira on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• vinho da Madeira on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

English

Etymology

From Middle English sherris (interpreted as plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former name of Jerez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ri/
• Rhymes: -?ri

Noun

sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)

1. (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
2. A variety of sherry.

3. A glass of sherry.

Coordinate terms

• Madeira
• Marsala

Derived terms

• cooking sherry
• sherrylike
• sherry vinegar
• washing sherry

Translations

See also

• amontillado

Czech

Noun

sherry n

1. sherry (fortified wine)
2. sherry (variety of sherry)
3. sherry (glass of sherry)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??eri/, [??e?ri]
• IPA^(key): /??er?y/, [??e?r?y]
• Syllabification: sher?ry

Noun

sherry

1. sherry

Declension

Italian

Noun

sherry m (invariable)

1. sherry

Polish

Etymology

From English sherry, from Spanish Xeres, Xeres being the former name of Jerez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.r?/

Noun

sherry n (indeclinable)

1. sherry (fortified wine)

Further reading

• sherry in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sherry in Polish dictionaries at PWN