cognac
See also: Cognac
English edit
Etymology edit
French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom.
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Noun edit
cognac (countable and uncountable, plural cognacs)
- A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.
- Major manufacturers add a small proportion of caramel to color their cognacs.
- 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 265:
- We’d have a script meeting for the next day’s shooting that lasted until two in the morning, and he’d be up again at six for a breakfast meeting. I survived on cognac. I have no idea how he did it.
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type of brandy
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Danish edit
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cognac c (singular definite cognacen, plural indefinite cognacer)
Declension edit
Declension of cognac
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | cognac | cognacen | cognacer | cognacerne |
genitive | cognacs | cognacens | cognacers | cognacernes |
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cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)
- (a glass of) cognac
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Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: konyak
French edit
Etymology edit
From Cognac.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cognac m (plural cognacs)
Descendants edit
- → Czech: koňak m
- → German: Kognak, Cognac
- → Spanish: coñac m
- → Polish: koniak m
- → Russian: конья́к m (konʹják)
Further reading edit
- “cognac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.