malvesey
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
malvesey (countable and uncountable, plural malveseys)
- Alternative form of malvoisie
Middle English edit
Noun edit
malvesey
- Alternative form of malvesye
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian Malvasia (“Monemvasia”, a city on the Peloponnese). From Ancient Greek Μονεμβασία (Monembasía), from μόνος (mónos, “one”) + ἔμβασις (émbasis, “entering into”, ἐν + βάσις).
Noun edit
malvesey oblique singular, m (oblique plural malveseys, nominative singular malveseys, nominative plural malvesey)
Descendants edit
References edit
- malvesey on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (malvoisie)