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wine

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
  • See also Thesaurus:wine
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    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

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    sextary

    English

    Etymology 1

    Anglicized from Latin sextarius (pint)

    Noun

    sextary (plural sextaries)

    1. An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.
    2. An Old English measure of liquid, usually wine or cider, perhaps containing 6 gallons.
      • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 172.
        The sextary seems to have contained 6 gallons, and is also used for cider and wine.
    Related terms
    • sextus
    • six

    Etymology 2

    For sextonry.

    Noun

    sextary (plural sextaries)

    1. (obsolete) A sacristy.

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