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English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman oint, Middle French oint, past participle of oindre, from Latin unguere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt/

Verb

oint (third-person singular simple present oints, present participle ointing, simple past and past participle ointed)

1. (now rare, poetic) To anoint.

   • They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.

Anagrams

• -tion, -toin, INTO, Toni, into, noit, on it

Catalan

Etymology

Present participle of oir, possibly corresponding to Latin audi?ns, audientem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /u?int/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u?in/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?int/

Verb

oint

1. present participle of oir

Noun

oint

1. (archaic) hearer

Synonyms

• oïdor

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??/

Etymology

From Middle French oint, from Old French oint, from Latin unctus.

Verb

oint m (feminine singular ointe, masculine plural oints, feminine plural ointes)

1. past participle of oindre

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin unctus.

Verb

oint

1. past participle of oindre

Descendants

• Middle French: oint
  • French: oint

Etymology 2

From Latin unctum.

Noun

oint m (oblique plural oinz or ointz, nominative singular oinz or ointz, nominative plural oint)

1. lard; fat; grease
2. ointment

Related terms

• ointure

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin vinum (“wine”).

Verb

vint (third-person singular simple present vints, present participle vinting, simple past and past participle vinted)

1. to make wine from fruit

See also

• brew
• distill

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian ???? (vint, “screw”).

Noun

vint (uncountable)

1. a Russian card game similar to bridge and whist

Synonyms

• Russian whist

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan vint), from Latin v?gint? (“twenty”) (compare French vingt, Spanish veinte), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wih??m?ti, from *dwi(h?)d?m?ti(h?) (“two tens, two decades”), *dwi(h?)d?m?ti.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vint/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bin/
• Rhymes: -int

Numeral

vint m or f

1. twenty

Noun

vint m (plural vints)

1. twenty

Crimean Tatar

Noun

vint

1. screw, wind

Estonian

Noun

vint (genitive vindi, partitive vinti)

1. finch

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• vint in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: vain, vainc, vaincs, vains, vin, vingt, vingts, vins, vînt

Verb

vint

1. third-person singular past historic of venir

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin ventus.

Noun

vint m (plural vints)

1. wind

Related terms

• stravint

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin v?gint?.

Adjective

vint

1. twenty

Noun

vint m (uncountable)

1. twenty

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Catalan vint), from Latin v?gint? (“twenty”) (compare French vingt, Spanish veinte, Italian venti), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wih??m?ti, from *dwi(h?)d?m?ti(h?) (“two tens, two decades”), *dwi(h?)d?m?ti.

Numeral

vint

1. (cardinal number) twenty

Derived terms

• vinten

Old French

Etymology

From Latin v?gint?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vint/

Numeral

vint

1. twenty

Descendants

• French: vingt
  • Haitian Creole: ven
  • Mauritian Creole: vin
  • ? Garifuna: wein
• Norman: vîngt, vingt
• Walloon: vint

Old Norse

Adjective

vint

1. positive degree strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of vindr

Picard

Etymology

From Latin ventus.

Noun

vint m (plural vints)

1. wind

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin v?gint?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi?t/

Numeral

vint

1. twenty

Walloon

Etymology 1

From Old French vint, from Latin v?gint?.

Numeral

vint

1. twenty

Etymology 2

From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“to blow”).

Noun

vint m

1. wind

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vent (“hero; man”).

Noun

vint m (plural vintn, diminutive vintje)

1. man
2. husband