wine
English
editPronunciation
edit- enPR: wīn, IPA(key): /waɪn/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪn
- Homophone: whine (wine–whine merger)
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum (from Proto-Italic *wīnom) from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine and vino.
Noun
editwine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)
- An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
- 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, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 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.
- 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:
Hyponyms
edit- (fermented grape juice): See Thesaurus:wine
Derived terms
edit- Adam's wine
- age like a fine wine
- age like fine wine
- age like wine
- altar wine
- aperitif wine
- apple wine
- barley wine
- bee wine
- bishop's wine
- blush wine
- bottle of wine
- box wine
- bread and wine
- British wine
- bum wine
- burglar's wine
- cake and wine
- cask wine
- cheese with your wine
- coca wine
- concrete oil of wine
- country wine
- dandelion wine
- days of wine and roses
- dessert wine
- elderberry wine
- flowers of wine
- fortified wine
- fruit wine
- ginger wine
- good wine needs no bush
- grape wine
- honey wine
- house wine
- ice wine
- jug wine
- low wine
- made-wine
- May wine
- mulled wine
- new wine
- new wine in an old bottle
- new wine in an old wineskin
- oil of wine
- old wine in a new bottle
- old wine in new bottles
- orange wine
- osmanthus wine
- palm wine
- palm-wine
- palm wine guitar
- pear wine
- plum wine
- pop wine
- port wine
- port-wine mark
- port-wine stain
- preach water and drink wine
- prison wine
- put new wine in old bottles
- quaffing wine
- quaffing wine
- realgar wine
- red wine
- red wine headache
- retsina wine
- rice wine
- rosé wine
- Shaoxing wine
- snake wine
- sops-in-wine
- sops of wine
- sparkling wine
- spirit of wine
- spirits of wine
- split wine bottle
- steel wine
- still wine
- strawberry wine
- straw wine
- table wine
- tears of wine
- tent wine
- the truth is in the wine
- white wine
- wine acid
- wine aunt
- wine ball
- wine bar
- wineberry
- wine-bibber
- winebibber
- winebibbing
- wine biscuit
- wine-blue
- wine-bottle
- wine bottle
- wine bottleful
- wine-bottleful
- wine cake
- wine cave
- wine cellar
- wine collar
- wine-colored
- wine-coloured
- wine cooler
- wine cooper
- wine cup
- winecup
- wine-dark
- wine flight
- wine fly
- wine from unpressed grapes
- wine gallon
- wine-glass
- wine glass
- wineglass
- wine grape
- winegrower
- wine grower
- wine growing
- wine gum
- wine key
- wine lake
- wine list
- winelore
- wine mom
- wine moth
- wine mum
- wine o'clock
- wine of opium
- wine-ology
- wine palm
- wine-press
- winepress
- wine rack
- wine route
- winery
- wine server
- wine shop
- wineskin
- wine steward
- wine stewardess
- wine stone
- wine stopper
- wine taster
- winetaster
- winetasting
- wine tears
- wine thief
- wine tosser
- wine-tree
- wine trough
- wine up
- wine vault
- wine vinegar
- wine waiter
- wine waitress
- wine whey
- wine-whine merger
- wine, women, and song
- winy
- Xeres wine
- xionghuang wine
- yellow wine
Descendants
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Verb
editwine (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;
- (intransitive) To drink wine.
- 1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker:
- I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.
Usage notes
editThe 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 terms
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See also
edit- beeswing
- bourguignonne
- brandy
- claret
- coq au vin
- enology, oenology
- enophile, oenophile
- gluhwein
- negus
- oenomel
- vinaceous
- vinager
- vinal
- Vinalia
- vinasse
- vindaloo
- vine
- vinegar
- vinic
- viniculture
- vinifera
- viniferous
- vinification
- vinify
- vinitor
- vino
- vinolence
- vinolency
- vinolent
- vinology
- vinomadefied
- vinometer
- vin ordinaire
- vinose
- vinosity
- vinotherapy
- vinous
- vin rosé
- vin rouge
- vinsanto
- vintage
- vintner
- vintry
- vinyl
Etymology 2
editA variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind.
Noun
editwine (uncountable)
- (British 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.
Etymology 3
editFrom Jamaican Creole [Term?], related to wind (verb).
Verb
editwine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)
- (dance, intransitive) To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.
- 2010, Andoni Alonso, Pedro Oiarzabal, editors, Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics, and Community[1], University of Nevada Press, →ISBN:
- Even when there are positive comments, as in the responses to “white boy wines to dancehall,” the origin of the white boy's ability to dance is attributed to skills derived from others: […] .
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old English wine, from earlier wini.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwine (plural wines or wine) (Early Middle English)
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “wine, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
editVerb
editwine
- Alternative form of wyn (“wine”)
Etymology 3
editVerb
editwine
- Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)
Etymology 4
editNoun
editwine
- Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)
Middle High German
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old High German wini.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwine m
Declension
editMuna
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binəhiq, from Proto-Austronesian *binəSiq.
Noun
editwine
North Frisian
editEtymology
editSee the main entry.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editwine
Conjugation
editinfinitive I | wine | |
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infinitive II | (tu) winen | |
infinitive III | än win | |
past participle | wünen | |
imperative | win | |
present | past | |
1st-person singular | win | wün |
2nd-person singular | wanst | wünst |
3rd-person singular | want | wün |
plural | wine | wünen |
perfect | pluperfect | |
1st-person singular | hääw wünen | häi wünen |
2nd-person singular | hääst wünen | häist wünen |
3rd-person singular | heet wünen | häi wünen |
plural | hääwe wünen | häin wünen |
future (schale) | future (wårde) | |
1st-person singular | schal wine | wård wine |
2nd-person singular | schäät wine | wårst wine |
3rd-person singular | schal wine | wårt wine |
plural | schan wine | wårde wine |
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom earlier Old English wini, from Proto-West Germanic *wini, from Proto-Germanic *winiz, whence also Old Dutch wini, Old Saxon wini, Old High German wini, Old Norse vinr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to seek, desire, love, win”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwine m
Usage notes
editUsed as a second element of many personal names. It could be appended to mythical creatures as in Ælfwine (“elf friend”) and Entwine (“giant friend”); or animals as in Lēowine (“lion friend”) and Wulfwine (“wolf friend”); or inanimate objects as in Goldwine (“gold friend”) and Dūnwine (“hill friend”); or locations as in Centwine (“Kent friend”); or features of nature as in Sǣwine (“sea friend”) and Æsċwine (“ash friend”); or kinds of people as in Pihtwine (“Pict friend”) and Bregowine (“prince friend”); or abstract concepts as in Ēadwine (“prosperity/happiness friend”) and Bōtwine (“repair/penance friend”). It was also often used with adjectives, usually praising the owner of the name, as in Beorhtwine (“bright friend”) and Ealdwine (“old friend”).
Declension
editStrong i-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | wine | winas |
accusative | wine | winas |
genitive | wines | wina |
dative | wine | winum |
Derived terms
edit- Ælfwine
- Æþelwine
- Æġlwine
- Baduwine
- Beaduwine
- Bealdwine
- Cūþwine
- Ealhwine
- Friþuwine
- frēawine
- Frēowine
- Godwine
- Goldwine
- goldwine
- gūþwine
- Heardwine
- Hrōþwine
- Hyġewine
- Hūnwine
- Lustwine
- Lēodwine
- Lēofwine
- mǣġwine
- Mēġwine
- Pleġwine
- sundorwine
- Tilwine
- Torhtwine
- Trumwine
- Tātwine
- Tīdwine
- Þeġnwine
- Wineberht
- winedryhten
- Winefriþ
- Winelāc
- winelēas
- winemǣġ
- winesċipe
- Wineþrȳþ
- Wulfwine
- Ġieldwine
- Ōswine
- Ōwine
Descendants
editReferences
edit- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “wine”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Old Frisian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *wini, from Proto-Germanic *winiz.
Noun
editwine m
Descendants
edit- North Frisian: wenn
References
editUnami
editEtymology
editVerb
editwine (inanimate intransitive)
- (inanimate, intransitive) it snows, it is snowing
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “wine”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
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