martini
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Martin.
Noun[edit]
martini (genitive)
- Martin (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms having English names of the form "Martin's ..."
Synonyms[edit]
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See Martini.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /mɑɹˈtini/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɑːˈtiːni/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːni
Noun[edit]
martini (countable and uncountable, plural martinis)
- A cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth.
- Will you join us at six o’clock for martinis?
- My boss is out on another of his three-martini lunches.
- 1961 Jan, Robert Silverberg, Amazing Stories, page 26, column 2:
- Even at Juneau's prices, ten dollars worth of martinis is a lot of liquor to drink in an hour.
- c. 1963, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Symmetries & Asymmetries”, in Edward Mendelson, editor, Collected Poems, New York: Random House, published 1976, →ISBN, page 551:
- Could any tiger
Drink martinis, smoke cigars,
And last as we do?
- 1997, Caroline Courtauld, May Holdsworth, The Hong Kong Story, Oxford, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 21:
- He drank martini, played bridge in the club, and captured treaty-port life wickedly.
- 2006, Joan [Elizabeth] Taylor, Conversations with Mr. Prain, Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, page 172:
- I had the feeling that had he been a smoker he would have lit a cigarette at this moment. I suspected that once he had been a smoker, for he seemed as if he wished someone would offer him one. He drank martini instead.
- 2007, Margaret S. Ngwa, Divine Love for Cleansing, Patron Publishing House, →ISBN, page 63:
- After the meal, they drank martini on the rocks in the lounge.
- (sometimes proscribed) Any cocktail served in a cocktail glass, often sweet or fruity and aimed at women.
- I love the chocolate martinis at Trendy Bar!
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Japanese: マティーニ (matīni)
Translations[edit]
cocktail
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Further reading[edit]
- Martini (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
martini
Declension[edit]
Inflection of martini (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | martini | martinit | ||
genitive | martinin | martinien | ||
partitive | martinia | martineja | ||
illative | martiniin | martineihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | martini | martinit | ||
accusative | nom. | martini | martinit | |
gen. | martinin | |||
genitive | martinin | martinien | ||
partitive | martinia | martineja | ||
inessive | martinissa | martineissa | ||
elative | martinista | martineista | ||
illative | martiniin | martineihin | ||
adessive | martinilla | martineilla | ||
ablative | martinilta | martineilta | ||
allative | martinille | martineille | ||
essive | martinina | martineina | ||
translative | martiniksi | martineiksi | ||
abessive | martinitta | martineitta | ||
instructive | — | martinein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading[edit]
- “martini”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
martini m
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English martini.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
martini n (indeclinable)
- martini (cocktail)
Further reading[edit]
- martini in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
martini m (plural martinis)
Further reading[edit]
- “martini”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- es:Cocktails
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