different between sommelier vs wine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) +? -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *salma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?m?m?li.?/, /?s??m?l?je?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s??m?l?je?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Hyphenation: som?mel?i?er

Noun

sommelier (plural sommeliers)

1. The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.

Synonyms

• sommeliere, sommelière (“female sommelier”)
• wine server
• wine steward, wine stewardess
• wine waiter, wine waitress

Translations

Verb

sommelier (third-person singular simple present sommeliers, present participle sommeliering, simple past and past participle sommeliered)

1. (rare) To act as a sommelier.

Further reading

• sommelier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

somme +? -ier; ultimately from bête de somme; somme is from Vulgar Latin *salma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.m?.lje/

Noun

sommelier m (plural sommeliers, feminine sommelière)

1. sommelier, wine steward (a person who is in charge of the wine cellar in a restaurant)
2. (estate house) the person in charge of bread, linens, crockery, and liquor; the chief of table setting
3. (obsolete) the person in charge of the wine convoy, its beasts of burden, and its protection

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• someliê (rare)

Etymology

From French sommelier

Noun

sommelier m, f (plural sommeliers)

1. sommelier (wine steward)

   Synonym: escanção

Spanish

Etymology

From French sommelier.

Noun

sommelier m (plural sommelieres)

1. sommelier

Swedish

Noun

sommelier c

1. a sommelier

Declension

Synonyms

• vinkypare

See also

• somalier

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.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

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