different between vinaigrette vs vinegar

English

Alternative forms

• vinegarette (box for vinegar or smelling salts)

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n-?-gr?t?, IPA^(key): /v?n?????t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

vinaigrette (countable and uncountable, plural vinaigrettes)

1. A sauce, made of an acidic liquid such as vinegar or lemon juice; oil; and other ingredients, used as a salad dressing, or as a marinade for cold meats.
2. (obsolete) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; called also vinegarette.
   • 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What will he do with it?

     Lady Selina smells at her vinaigrette, and replies in her softest, affectedest, civilest, and crushingest manner— "Poor—DEAR—OLD MAN!"

3. (obsolete) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a person.
4. A sort of Russian salad, originally using French salad dressing.

Synonyms

• (sauce): French dressing, Italian dressing, Greek dressing, vinaigrette dressing, vinaigrette sauce, vinaigrette salad sauce

Derived terms

• vinaigrette dressing
• vinaigrette sauce

Translations

Anagrams

• integrative, vertiginate

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Noun

vinaigrette c (singular definite vinaigretten, not used in plural form)

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

Declension

References

• “vinaigrette” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Alternative forms

• vinegrette
• vinegretti

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ine?ret?e/, [??ine???re?t??e?]
• IPA^(key): /??in?i??ret?e/, [??in?i???re?t??e?]
• Syllabification: vi?naig?ret?te

Noun

vinaigrette

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.n?.???t/

Etymology 1

From vinaigre +? -ette.

Noun

vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)

1. vinaigrette (sauce), French dressing

Descendants

• ? Catalan: vinagreta
• ? English: vinaigrette
• ? Russian: ????????? m (vinegrét)

Etymology 2

From vinaigre (root of vinaigrier, which it resembles) +? -ette.

Noun

vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)

1. vinaigrette (vehicle)

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English vynegre, from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin v?num (“wine”) + Latin acer (“sour”). Displaced Old English æ?ed.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?n???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?n???/
• Hyphenation: vin?e?gar

Noun

vinegar (countable and uncountable, plural vinegars)

1. (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.
2. (countable) Any variety of vinegar.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• non-brewed condiment

Verb

vinegar (third-person singular simple present vinegars, present participle vinegaring, simple past and past participle vinegared)

1. (transitive) To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.

   • Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]

Derived terms

• vinegared
• vinegaring

Translations

Anagrams

• Ginevra, Ingrave, avering, ingrave, reaving, vaginer