See also: sekt

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Etymology edit

Borrowed in the 17th century, and provided with an additional -t, from French (vin) sec, that is "dry wine", which is also the original sense in German. The sense “sparkling wine” is believed to originate from an anecdote in 19th-century Berlin. The actor Ludwig Devrient supposedly ordered a bottle of wine using the phrase Bring [er] mir Sekt, Schurke!, based on the German translation of the line "Give me a cup of sack, rogue!" from Shakespeare’s Henry IV. He was served sparkling wine, his usual order, and this sense was given to the word Sekt when the phrase and anecdote caught on.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /zɛkt/
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Noun edit

Sekt m (strong, genitive Sektes or Sekts, plural Sekte, diminutive Sektchen n)

  1. sparkling wine
    Synonyms: (formal; officialese) Schaumwein; (colloquial; jokingly) Prickelbrause, (derogatory) Puffbrause, (derogatory) Nuttenbrause
    • 2018 May 26, Christoph Raffelt, “Christoph Raffelt Mundwerk: Es wird Zeit, den deutschen Sekt zur Kenntnis zu nehmen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN, page 63:
      Was in diesen Wein- und Sektgütern passiert, ist ein Wandel von genügsamen und oft auch etwas zuckrig schmeckenden Sekten der Vergangenheit hin zu feinen, eleganten, oft knochentrockenen, frischen und druckvollen Sekten, die plötzlich international Aufsehen erregen.
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Further reading edit

  • Sekt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Sekt” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Sekt” in Duden online
  •   Sekt on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de