wine
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: wīn, IPA(key): /waɪn/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪn
- Homophone: whine (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine.
NounEdit
wine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)
- An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
- c. 810, charter of Christ Church Canterbury, Cotton Augustus II, 79, f1r:
- ...selle mon... mittan fulne huniges oðða tuegen uuines...
- 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:
- And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.
- 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, p. 156:
- In Europe then [1925] we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking either wine or cider or beer.
- Wine is usually stronger than beer.
- "Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.
- c. 810, charter of Christ Church Canterbury, Cotton Augustus II, 79, f1r:
- An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.
- (countable) A serving of wine.
- I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.
- (uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.
- wine:
HyponymsEdit
- (fermented grape juice): See Thesaurus:wine
Derived termsEdit
- Adam's wine
- apple wine
- barley wine
- blush wine
- bottle of wine
- box wine
- bread and wine
- dandelion wine
- dessert wine
- elderberry wine
- fortified wine
- fruit wine
- ginger wine
- good wine needs no bush
- house wine
- ice wine
- jug wine
- made-wine
- May wine
- palm wine
- palm wine guitar
- pear wine
- plum wine
- port-wine stain
- put new wine in old bottles
- red wine
- rice wine
- rosé wine
- sparkling wine
- spirits of wine
- strawberry wine
- white wine
- wine bar
- wine bottle
- wine cellar
- wine cooler
- wine gallon
- wine growing
- wine list
- wine mom
- wine palm
- wine vinegar
- wine waiter
- wine, women, and song
- wine-coloured
- wine-press
- wineberry
- winebibber
- winebibbing
- wineglass
- winegrower
- winelore
- winepress
- winery
- wineskin
- winetaster
- winetasting
- winy
- yellow wine
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)
- (transitive) To entertain (someone) with wine.
- 1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159:
- Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;
- 1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159:
- (intransitive) To drink wine.
- 1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker:
- I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.
Usage notesEdit
The homophony of wine (and wining) with whine (and whining) is sometimes a point of humor, as with would you like some cheese with your /waɪn/? or if you're going to be whining then I need to be wining.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
- beeswing
- bourguignonne
- brandy
- claret
- coq au vin
- enology, oenology
- enophile, oenophile
- gluhwein
- negus
- oenomel
- vin ordinaire
- vin rosé
- vin rouge
- vinaceous
- vinager
- vinal
- Vinalia
- vinasse
- vindaloo
- vine
- vinegar
- vinic
- viniculture
- vinifera
- viniferous
- vinification
- vinify
- vinitor
- vino
- vinolence
- vinolency
- vinolent
- vinology
- vinomadefied
- vinometer
- vinose
- vinosity
- vinotherapy
- vinous
- vinsanto
- vintage
- vintner
- vintry
- vinyl
Etymology 2Edit
A variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind.
NounEdit
wine (uncountable)
- (Britain dialect) Wind.
- 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century:
- Vor voices rawze upon tha wine
- 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire:
- Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens / When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine.
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English wine, from earlier wini.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
wine (plural wines or wine) (Early Middle English)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “wine, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
wine
- Alternative form of wyn (“wine”)
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
wine
- Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
wine
- Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)
Middle High GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old High German wini.
NounEdit
wine m
MunaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binəhiq, from Proto-Austronesian *binəSiq.
NounEdit
wine
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *winiz. Cognate with Old Frisian wine, Old Saxon wini, Old High German wini, Old Norse vinr, and Gothic *𐍅𐌹𐌽𐍃 (*wins). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin venus, Proto-Celtic *wenja- (Old Irish fine).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
wine m
Usage notesEdit
Used as a second element of many personal names. It could be appended to mythical creatures (Ælfwine "elf friend," Entwine "giant friend"), animals (Ēowine "horse friend," Earnwine "eagle friend," Seolhwine "seal friend," Lēowine "lion friend," Gōswine "goose friend," Eoforwine "boar friend," Wulfwine "wolf friend," Hundwine "dog friend"), inanimate objects (Seaxwine "knife friend," Goldwine "gold friend," Ealuwine "ale friend", Dunwine "hill friend"), locations (Centwine "Kent friend"), features of nature (Sǣwine "sea friend," Wealdwine "forest friend", Æscwine "ash friend), kinds of people (Wealhwine "Celt friend," Cnihtwine "boy friend"), or abstract concepts (Mōdwine "mind friend" or "courage friend"). It was also often used with adjectives, usually praising the owner of the name, as in Beorhtwine ("bright friend"), Ealdwine ("old friend"), and Dēorwine ("dear friend").
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- John R. Clark Hall (1916), “wine”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Old FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *wini, from Proto-Germanic *winiz.
NounEdit
wine m
DescendantsEdit
- North Frisian: wenn
ReferencesEdit
UnamiEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
wine (inanimate intransitive)
- (inanimate, intransitive) it snows, it is snowing
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “wine”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project