different between vinegar vs aigre

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

English

Etymology

French. See eager.

Adjective

aigre (comparative more aigre, superlative most aigre)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of eager (“sour”)

Related terms

• vinegar

Anagrams

• Aegir, Argie, Gaier, aegir, aiger

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *acrus or *acrum, change of declension from Classical Latin acer, acrem, from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h??rós (“sharp”). Compare âcre, a borrowed doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Adjective

aigre (plural aigres)

1. sharp, sour, acid

   Synonym: acide

2. shrill (voice), biting (wind etc.)

Derived terms

• aigreur
• aigrir

Related terms

• vinaigre

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• gérai
• réagi

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *acrus or *acrum, change of declension from Classical Latin acer, acrem, from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h??rós (“sharp”). The presence of /g/ in this word is unexpected; cf. the more regular variant aire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ai??r?/

Adjective

aigre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aigre)

1. sharp, sour, acid

Descendants

• French: aigre
• Middle English: egre, eger, egyr, egir, egur, egree
  • English: eager
  • Scots: eager
  • Yola: aagar
• Old French: vinaigre
  • French: vinaigre
  • ? Middle English: vynegre, fynegre, wyne-egre, vyneger, wynyger, venegre, vinegre, wyneger, vynagre, vinagir, vineger
    • English: vinegar (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: veenegar
  • ? Middle Irish: fínégra
    • Irish: fínéagar

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (aigre)
• "egre." Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND2 Online Edition), Aberystwyth University, 2021. Web. 5 April 2021. https://anglo-norman.net/entry/egre.