vermouth

English

Etymology

From French vermout, vermouth, from German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of wormwood.

The standard of identity in the United States is from the Code of Federal Regulations, title 27, section 4.21(g).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈmuːθ/, /ˈvɜːməθ/
• IPA^(key): /vɚˈmuθ/
• Rhymes: -uːθ

Noun

vermouth (countable and uncountable, plural vermouths)

1. A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.

   Hyponym: Martini

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

   • 2014, Ray Foley, Bartending For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 116:

     Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.

2. (US standard of identity) An aperitif wine that matches the general description of vermouth.

Translations

wine infused with herbs

• Arabic: إِسْفِنْط m (ʔisfinṭ) (in antiquity), فِيرْمُوت m (firmut)
• Aramaic: אפסינתינון m (ap̄sinṭīnōn), אפסנתין m (ap̄sinṭīn)
• Armenian: վերմուտ (hy) (vermut)
• Asturian: vermú m
• Bulgarian: вермут m (vermut)
• Catalan: vermut (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 威末酒 (wai¹ mut⁶ zau²)

  Mandarin: 味美思 (zh) (wèiměisī)

• Czech: vermut (cs) m
• Esperanto: vermuto
• Estonian: vermut
• Finnish: vermutti (fi)
• French: vermouth (fr) m
• Galician: vermú m
• Georgian: ვერმუთი (vermuti)
• German: Wermut (de) m
• Greek:

  Byzantine: ἀψίνθιον n (apsínthion), ἀψινθίατον n (apsinthíaton)

  Modern: βερμούτ (el) n (vermoút)

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• Hungarian: vermut (hu), ürmös (hu), ürmösbor (hu)
• Icelandic: vermút n
• Interlingua: vermut
• Irish: fíon mormónta m
• Italian: vermut m
• Japanese: ベルモット (berumotto)
• Korean: 베르무트 (bereumuteu)
• Latin: absinthium n, absinthiātum n
• Macedonian: вермут m (vermut)
• Polish: wermut (pl) m
• Portuguese: vermute (pt) m
• Russian: ве́рмут (ru) m (vérmut)
• Spanish: vermú (es) m
• Swedish: vermouth c
• Tagalog: bermut
• Volapük: vemut

Further reading

• vermouth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

vermouth

1. vermouth