wine

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.2.3 Derived terms 1.2.4 Related terms 1.2.5 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.2 Quotations 2 Middle High German 2.1 Noun 3 Old English 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Noun 3.3.1 Derived terms 3.3.2 Declension

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• 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).

[edit] Noun

wine (countable and uncountable; plural wines)

1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of grapes.
2. 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".
3. (countable) A serving of wine
4. (uncountable) A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.

   wine colour:

5. (computing) A compatibility layer that allows programs made for Microsoft Windows® to run under UNIX and Linux.

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[edit] Verb

to wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

1. (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;

2. (intransitive) To drink wine.

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Adam's wine barley wine blush wine bottle of wine bread and wine dessert wine fortified wine ginger wine house wine ice wine jug wine May wine palm wine palm wine guitar

pop wine port-wine stain put new wine in old bottles red wine rosé wine sparkling wine spirits of wine straw wine table wine white wine wine and dine wine bar wine bottle wine cellar wine cooler

wine gallon wine glass wine grower wine growing wine list wine palm wine vinegar wine waiter wine, women, and song winebery winebibber winebibbing

winebottle wine-coloured wineery wineglass winegrower wine-press wineskin winetaster winetasting winy

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[edit] See also

amontillado Asti spumante auslese Bacchus Barolo Barsac Beaujolais Beaumes-de-Venise Beerenauslese bin end Bordeaux burgundy cabernet sauvignon canary Catawba cava Chablis champagne chaptalize chardonnay Chianti

corkage Côte-Rôtie cru cuvée demijohn Dionysus double magnum Frascati gamay Gewürztraminer glogg Graves hippocras jeroboam kir krater Lambrusco LBV lees Liebfraumilch

malmsey Marsala merlot Methuselah Meursault mirin Moselle Muscadet muscatel Orvieto Pinot Grigio Pinot Noir pinotage rehoboam retsina riesling Rioja sangaree sangria sauterne

Sauvignon blanc scuppernong Sémillon sherry Soave sommelier spätlese spritzer St-Émilion syrah Tavel Tokay trockenbeerenauslese tun Valpolicella vermouth vigneron Vouvray zinfandel Appendix:Colours

[edit] Etymology 2

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[edit] Noun

wine (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard, British) wind

[edit] Quotations

• 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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[edit] Noun

wine m.

1. friend

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

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).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwine/

[edit] Noun

wine m.

1. (poetic) friend, lord, protector

   wine werigmod, wætre beflowen on dreorsele: sad-hearted friend, surrounded by water in his lonely hall. (The Wife’s Lament)

[edit] Derived terms

winedryhten winelēas guldwine

winemǣġ winescipe

[edit] Declension

	Singular	Plural
nominative	wine	winas
accusative	wine	winas
genitive	wines	wina
dative	wine	winum