different between vermouth vs absinthium

English

Etymology

From French vermout, vermouth, from German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of wormwood.

The standard of identity in the United States is from the Code of Federal Regulations, title 27, section 4.21(g).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??mu??/, /?v??m??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v??mu?/
• Rhymes: -u??

Noun

vermouth (countable and uncountable, plural vermouths)

1. A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.

   Hyponym: Martini

   • 2014, Ray Foley, Bartending For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 116:

     Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.

2. (US standard of identity) An aperitif wine that matches the general description of vermouth.
3. A serving of vermouth.

Hyponyms

• sweet vermouth; dry vermouth, French (dated slang)

Translations

Further reading

• vermouth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From German Wermut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.mut/

Noun

vermouth m (plural vermouths)

1. vermouth

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

vermouth

1. vermouth

English

Etymology

From Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ???????? (apsínthion). Doublet of absinthe.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?s?n.?i.m?/

Noun

absinthium (uncountable)

1. (now rare) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]
2. The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant.
3. absinthe oil

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bismuthian

Latin

Alternative forms

• apsinthium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (apsínthion, “wormwood”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab?sin.t?i.um/, [äp?s??n?t??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap?sin.ti.um/, [?p?sin?t?ium]

Noun

absinthium n (genitive absinthi? or absinth?); second declension

1. wormwood
2. an infusion of wormwood sometimes masked with honey due to its bitter taste
3. (figuratively) something which is bitter but wholesome
4. accusative singular of absinthium
5. vocative singular of absinthium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Dalmatian: ascianz
• ? French: absinthe
  • ? Catalan: absenta
  • ? English: absinthe
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: absint
  • ? Portuguese: absinto
• ? Georgian: ??????? (abzinda)
• ? Irish: apsaint
• Italian: assenzio
• ? Portuguese: absíntio
• Spanish: ajenjo
• ? Spanish: absintio

References

• absinthium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• absinthium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• absinthium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers