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English

Etymology

From Middle English wif, wiif, wyf, from Old English w?f (“woman, female, lady, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *w?b? (“woman, wife”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g?wíb?- (“shame, pudenda”) (compare Tocharian A/B kip/kw?pe (“shame, genitals, female pudenda”)). Cognate with Scots wife (“wife”), West Frisian wiif (“wife, woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuw (“woman, lady, female”), North Frisian wüf (“wife, woman”), Dutch wijf (“woman, female”), Low German Wief (“woman, female”), German Weib (“woman, wife, female”), Danish viv (“woman”), Norwegian viv (“wife, woman, girl”), Swedish viv (“woman”), Faroese vív (“wife, woman”), Icelandic víf (“woman”).

See also woman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?f/
• Rhymes: -a?f

Noun

wife (plural wives)

1. A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
   • 1952, P. G. Wodehouse, Big Business, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 127-8.

     All through Reginald's deeply moving performance she had sat breathless, her mind in a whirl and her soul stirred to her very depths. With each low note that he pulled up from the soles of his shoes she could feel the old affection and esteem surging back into her with a whoosh, and long before he had taken his sixth bow she knew ... that it would be madness to try to seek happiness elsewhere, particularly as the wife of a man with large ears and no chin, who looked as if he were about to start in the two-thirty race at Kempton Park.
2. The female of a pair of mated animals.

3. (Scotland) Synonym of woman.

Usage notes

Although mostly used only humorously, wife can be used with the to indicate one's own wife, as in "I'd like to go, but the wife wants me home".

Synonyms

• (married woman): little woman (slang)
• See also Thesaurus:wife

Antonyms

• (married woman): husband, were (noun) (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• better half, life partner, partner, significant other, spouse, wedder

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (waifu)
  • ? English: waifu
• ? Korean: ??? (waipeu)

Translations

See also

• uxorial

Verb

wife

1. (slang, African-American Vernacular, said of men) to marry

Synonyms

• wive

See also

• wife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pages starting with “wife”.

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• fiew

Middle English

Noun

wife

1. Alternative form of wif

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wif (“woman, wife”), from Old English w?f (“woman”).

Noun

wife (plural wifes)

1. woman
2. wife

Derived terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English v?ne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin v?nia, from Latin v?nea (“vines in a vineyard”), from v?neus (“related to wine”), from v?num (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *w?nom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh?nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh?y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n, IPA^(key): /va?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

vine (plural vines)

1. The climbing plant that produces grapes.
2. Any plant of the genus Vitis.
3. (by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant.

Synonyms

• (climbing plant that produces grapes): grapevine
• (any climbing or trailing plant): climber (UK)

Hyponyms

• (US): liana

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• kudzu
• liana
• scrambler
• twiner

Anagrams

• Vien, nevi, vein

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?vi.n?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bi.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine

Verb

vine

1. second-person singular imperative form of venir

Danish

Noun

vine c

1. indefinite plural of vin

Estonian

Noun

vine (genitive vine, partitive vinet)

1. mist

Declension

Derived terms

• uduvine (“haze”)
• vinene (“misty”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vin/

Verb

vine

1. first-person singular present indicative of viner
2. third-person singular present indicative of viner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of viner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of viner
5. second-person singular imperative of viner

Inari Sami

Etymology

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Noun

vi?e

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Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Latin

Noun

v?ne

1. vocative singular of v?nus

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman vinne, vine (Old French vigne), from Vulgar Latin vinia, from Latin v?nea (“vineyard; vine”). Doublet of vyny.

Alternative forms

• vin, viene, vign, vigne, veine, vyne, vyn, vyene, vygn, vygne, veyne, win, wine, wyn, wyne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?n(?)/

Noun

vine (plural vines or (early) vinen)

2. grapevine
3. vineyard

Related terms

• vyner
• vynet
• vyne?erd
• vyne-tre
• vynour

Descendants

• English: vine
• Scots: vine

References

• “v?ne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French vigne (“siege engine”), from Latin v?nea.

Alternative forms

• vyne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?n(?)/

Noun

vine (plural vines)

2. (military) siege engine

References

• “v?ne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Noun

vine (plural vines)

1. Alternative form of wyn (“wine”)

Etymology 4

Noun

vine (plural vines)

1. Alternative form of vyny

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine

Noun

vine

1. plural of vân?

Verb

vine

1. third-person singular present indicative of veni

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bine/, [?bi.ne]

Verb

vine

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of venir.

Volapük

Noun

vine

1. dative singular of vin