malvesey
English
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmalvesey (countable and uncountable, plural malveseys)
- Alternative form of malvoisie
Middle English
editNoun
editmalvesey
- Alternative form of malvesye
Old French
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editmalvesey oblique singular, m (oblique plural malveseys, nominative singular malveseys, nominative plural malvesey)
Descendants
editReferences
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)
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