vinaigre

See also: vinaigré

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vin (“wine”) + aigre (“acrid”). Compare Catalan and Occitan vinagre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.nɛɡʁ/

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• Homophones: vinaigrent, vinaigres

Noun

vinaigre m (plural vinaigres)

1. vinegar

Derived terms

• mouche de vinaigre
• mouche du vinaigre
• on n’attrape pas des mouches avec du vinaigre
• tourner au vinaigre (“turn sour”)
• vinaigre balsamique
• vinaigre de toilette

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: vinèg

Verb

vinaigre

1. inflection of vinaigrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “vinaigre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French vinaigre.

Noun

vinaigre m (plural vinaigres)

1. vinegar

Old French

Etymology

From vin (“wine”) +‎ aigre (“sour”).

Noun

vinaigre oblique singular, m (oblique plural vinaigres, nominative singular vinaigres, nominative plural vinaigre)

1. vinegar

Descendants

• French: vinaigre
• → Middle English: vynegre, fynegre, wyne-egre, vyneger, wynyger, venegre, vinegre, wyneger, vynagre, vinagir, vineger
  • English: vinegar
    • → Japanese: ビネガー (binegā)
    • → Welsh: finegr
  • Scots: veenegar
• → Middle Irish: fínégra
  • Irish: fínéagar