wine
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- enPR: wīn, IPA: /waɪn/, SAMPA: /waIn/
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- Rhymes: -aɪn
- Homophones: whine (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English < Old English wīn < Proto-Germanic *wīnam < Latin vīnum. Akin to Ancient Greek οἶνος (oinos).
Related words include Dutch wijn, German Wein, Finnish viini, Swedish vin, French vin, Spanish vino, Greek οίνος (oínos), Slovak and Czech víno, Polish wino, Russian вино (vinó), Georgian ღვინო (ğvino), Armenian գինի (gini).
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wine (countable and uncountable; plural wines)
- An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of grapes.
- An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
- (countable) A serving of wine
- (uncountable) A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.
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- (computing) A compatibility layer that allows programs made for Microsoft Windows® to run under UNIX and Linux.
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to wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)
- (transitive) To entertain 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.
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[edit] Etymology 2
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wine (uncountable)
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- 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.
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wine m.
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From Proto-Germanic *wini, from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“‘love, desire’”). Cognate with Old High German wini, Old Norse vinr (Danish ven, Norwegian vin), Old Saxon wini. Related to Old English wynn, wenian. The IE root is also the source of Latin venus, Proto-Celtic *wenja- (Old Irish fine, Breton gwenn, Welsh gwen).
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- IPA: /ˈwine/
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wine m.
- (poetic) friend, lord, protector
- wine werigmod, wætre beflowen on dreorsele: sad-hearted friend, surrounded by water in his lonely hall. (The Wife’s Lament)
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| nominative | wine | winas |
| accusative | wine | winas |
| genitive | wines | wina |
| dative | wine | winum |

