vinaigrette

See also: Vinaigrette

English

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 vinaigrette in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Alternative forms

• vinegarette (box for vinegar or smelling salts)

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vĭn-ə-grĕtʹ, IPA^(key): /vɪnəˈɡɹɛt/

  • Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

vinaigrette (countable and uncountable, plural vinaigrettes)

A bottle of oil and balsamic vinegar for making vinaigrette in an Italian restaurant in Singapore

1. A sauce, made of an acidic liquid such as vinegar or lemon juice; oil; and other ingredients, used as a salad dressing, or as a marinade for cold meats.
2. (obsolete) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; called also vinegarette.
   • 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What will he do with it?

     Lady Selina smells at her vinaigrette, and replies in her softest, affectedest, civilest, and crushingest manner— "Poor—DEAR—OLD MAN!"

3. (obsolete) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man.
4. A sort of Russian salad, originally using French salad dressing.

Drawing of vinaigrette box

Synonyms

• (sauce): French dressing, Italian dressing, Greek dressing, vinaigrette dressing, vinaigrette sauce, vinaigrette salad sauce

Derived terms

• vinaigrette dressing
• vinaigrette sauce

Translations

sauce

• Breton: gwinegrenn (br) f
• Finnish: vinaigrette (fi)
• French: vinaigrette (fr) f
• Galician: vinagreta f
• German: Vinaigrette (de) f

• Greek: λαδόξιδο (el) n (ladóxido)
• Persian: وینگرت‎ (vinegret)
• Portuguese: vinagrete m
• Spanish: aliño (es) m
• Swedish: vinägrett (sv) c
• Tagalog: binagreta
• Ukrainian: со́ус вінегре́т m (sóus vinehrét), вінегре́тна запра́вка f (vinehrétna zaprávka)

small box for holding vinegar or smelling salts

• German: Riechfläschchen n

• Volapük: smelafladil, benosmelafladül

vehicle

• French: vinaigrette (fr) f

a Russian salad

• Belarusian: вінэгрэ́т m (vinehrét)
• German: Vinaigrette (de) f

• Russian: винегре́т (ru) m (vinegrét)
• Ukrainian: вінігре́т m (vinihrét)

Anagrams

• integrative, vertiginate

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Noun

vinaigrette c (singular definite vinaigretten, not used in plural form)

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

Declension

Declension of vinaigrette

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	vinaigrette	vinaigretten
genitive	vinaigrettes	vinaigrettens

References

• “vinaigrette” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• vinegrette
• vinegretti

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋineɡretːe/, [ˈʋine̞ɡˌre̞t̪ːe̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋinɑi̯ɡretːe/, [ˈʋinɑi̯ɡˌre̞t̪ːe̞]
• Syllabification: vi‧naig‧ret‧te

Noun

vinaigrette

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

Declension

Inflection of vinaigrette (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		vinaigrette	vinaigrettet
genitive		vinaigretten	vinaigrettejen
partitive		vinaigrettea	vinaigretteja
illative		vinaigretteen	vinaigretteihin
		singular	plural
nominative		vinaigrette	vinaigrettet
accusative	nom.	vinaigrette	vinaigrettet
	gen.	vinaigretten
genitive		vinaigretten	vinaigrettejen vinaigretteinrare
partitive		vinaigrettea	vinaigretteja
inessive		vinaigrettessa	vinaigretteissa
elative		vinaigrettesta	vinaigretteista
illative		vinaigretteen	vinaigretteihin
adessive		vinaigrettella	vinaigretteilla
ablative		vinaigrettelta	vinaigretteilta
allative		vinaigrettelle	vinaigretteille
essive		vinaigrettena	vinaigretteina
translative		vinaigretteksi	vinaigretteiksi
instructive		—	vinaigrettein
abessive		vinaigrettetta	vinaigretteitta
comitative		—	vinaigretteineen

Possessive forms of vinaigrette (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	vinaigretteni	vinaigrettemme
2nd person	vinaigrettesi	vinaigrettenne
3rd person	vinaigrettensa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɛt/

• Audio

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Noun

vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)

1. vinaigrette (sauce), French dressing
2. vinaigrette (vehicle)

Descendants

• Russian: винегре́т m (vinegrét) (a type of Russian salad originally using the French dressing)

Further reading

• “vinaigrette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).