liquor
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- liquour (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid or liquid”); see liquid. Doublet of liqueur.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɪk.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɪk.ɚ/
- Homophone: licker
- Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
liquor (countable and uncountable, plural liquors)
- (obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
- Thus Water also, or any other Liquor, included in a convenient vessel, by being warmed, manifestly expands it self with a very great violence […]
- 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:
- Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
- (obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
- A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
- Synonyms: stock, (American English) pot liquor, broth, bouillon
- (UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
- Synonyms: (British and Australasian English) spirits, hard liquor, hard drink, strong drink
- 1879, Chas. McArmor, The New Handbook of Vienna […] [1], 2nd edition, Otto Maass, page 106:
- Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors.
- In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
- A liquid in which something has been steeped.
Derived terms[edit]
- black liquor
- call liquor
- chocolate liquor
- corn liquor
- hard liquor
- hold one's liquor
- in liquor
- iron liquor
- Labarraque's liquor
- liquor amnii
- liquor commission
- liquor gauge
- liquor licence
- liquor lounge
- liquor of flints
- liquor sanguinis
- liquor silicum
- liquor store
- liquor thief
- liquor up
- malt liquor
- mother liquor
- red liquor
- sea liquor
- tan liquor
- tin liquor
- well liquor
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Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
liquor (third-person singular simple present liquors, present participle liquoring, simple past and past participle liquored)
- (intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
- (transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
- (obsolete, transitive) To grease.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
- Liquor fishermen's boots.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored
Derived terms[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “liquor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
References[edit]
- “liquor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From liqueō (“I am liquid, fluid”) + -or.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlʲɪkʷɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]
Noun[edit]
liquor m (genitive liquōris); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | liquor | liquōrēs |
Genitive | liquōris | liquōrum |
Dative | liquōrī | liquōribus |
Accusative | liquōrem | liquōrēs |
Ablative | liquōre | liquōribus |
Vocative | liquor | liquōrēs |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: licor
- French: liqueur
- → Romanian: licoare
- Italian: liquore
- Occitan: liquor
- Russian: ликёр (likjór)
- Sicilian: licori m
- Spanish: licor m
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.kʷor/, [ˈlʲiːkʷɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]
Verb[edit]
līquor (present infinitive līquī); third conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stem
- (intransitive) I am fluid or liquid
- (intransitive) I flow
- (intransitive) I melt, dissolve
Conjugation[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlʲɪkʷɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]
Verb[edit]
liquor
References[edit]
- “līquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lĭquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “liquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- liquor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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