wine definition

English wine definition

Pronunciation

• enPR: wīn, IPA^(key): /waɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn
• Homophone: whine (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine.

Noun

wine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)

1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
   • c. 810, charter of Christ Church Canterbury, Cotton Augustus II, 79, f1r:

     ...selle mon... mittan fulne huniges oðða tuegen uuines...

   • 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:

     And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
     High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
     Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
     That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.

   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, p. 156:

     In Europe then [1925] we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking either wine or cider or beer.

   Wine is usually stronger than beer.

   "Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.

2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.

   ...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...

3. (countable) A serving of wine.

   I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.

4. (uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.

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Hyponyms

• (fermented grape juice): See Thesaurus:wine

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

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.
   • 1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker:

     I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.

Derived terms

• wine and dine

Translations

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Etymology 2

A variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind.

Noun

wine (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialect) Wind.
   • 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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Middle English wine definition

Etymology 1

From Old English wine, from earlier wini.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwin(ə)/

Noun

wine (plural wines or wine) (Early Middle English)

1. friend
2. relative

Related terms

• wiþerwine

References

• “wine, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

wine

1. Alternative form of wyn (“wine”)

Etymology 3

Verb

wine

1. Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Etymology 4

Noun

wine

1. Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

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Middle High German wine definition

Alternative forms

• win

Etymology

From Old High German wini.

Noun

wine m

1. friend

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Muna wine definition

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binəhiq, from Proto-Austronesian *binəSiq.

Noun

wine

1. seed

   Defepili kahitela mokesano so wine.

   They are selecting maize kernels as seed.

2. seedlings

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Old English wine definition

Alternative forms

• wini

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *winiz. Cognate with Old Frisian wine, Old Saxon wini, Old High German wini, Old Norse vinr, and Gothic *𐍅𐌹𐌽𐍃 (*wins). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin venus, Proto-Celtic *wenja- (Old Irish fine).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ne/

Noun

wine m

1. (poetic) friend

Usage notes

Used as a second element of many personal names. It could be appended to mythical creatures (Ælfwine "elf friend," Entwine "giant friend"), animals (Ēowine "horse friend," Earnwine "eagle friend," Seolhwine "seal friend," Lēowine "lion friend," Gōswine "goose friend," Eoforwine "boar friend," Wulfwine "wolf friend," Hundwine "dog friend"), inanimate objects (Seaxwine "knife friend," Goldwine "gold friend," Ealuwine "ale friend", Dunwine "hill friend"), locations (Centwine "Kent friend"), features of nature (Sǣwine "sea friend," Wealdwine "forest friend", Æscwine "ash friend), kinds of people (Wealhwine "Celt friend," Cnihtwine "boy friend"), or abstract concepts (Mōdwine "mind friend" or "courage friend"). It was also often used with adjectives, usually praising the owner of the name, as in Beorhtwine ("bright friend"), Ealdwine ("old friend"), and Dēorwine ("dear friend").

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: wine
  • ⇒ English: (a component found in names – Baldwin, Godwin, Irwin, etc.)

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “wine”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan

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Unami wine definition

Etymology

• /win/: of snow, snowy
• /e/: verb marker
• /-w/: third person suffix

Verb

wine (inanimate intransitive)

1. (inanimate, intransitive) it snows, it is snowing

Related terms

• kun

References

• Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “wine”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project