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A glass of red wine

Proto-West Germanic *wīn

Old English wīn

Middle English wyn

English wine

From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum (from Proto-Italic *wīnom) from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine and vino.

Cognate with Dutch wijn, German Wein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vin, Faroese and Icelandic vín.

wine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)

  1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
    Wine is usually stronger than beer.
    "Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.
    • 2007 January 14, Howard G. Goldberg, “A Tour of Israel, Bottle by Bottle”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 30 June 2013:
      Admirers of Israel’s kosher and nonkosher wines need the 2007 edition of “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines” (Toby Press, $19.95).
    • 2022 January 22, Jonathan Reiner, “If you think that glass of wine is good for you, it’s time to reconsider”, in CNN‎[2]:
      The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds.
  2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.
  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.
    wine:

Descendants

alcoholic beverage made from grapes — see also port wine,‎ chianti

alcoholic beverage made from other fruits, vegetables or plants — see also port wine,‎ chianti

wine colour

wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

  1. (transitive) To entertain (someone) 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.

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

wine (uncountable)

  1. (British 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.

From Jamaican Creole [Term?], related to wind (verb).

wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

  1. (dance, intransitive) To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.
    • 1993, Shaggy, “Oh Carolina”‎[3]:
      Carolina come wine 'pon me / Oh watch how di gyal groove
    • 2010, Andoni Alonso, Pedro Oiarzabal, editors, Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics, and Community‎[4], University of Nevada Press, →ISBN:
      Even when there are positive comments, as in the responses to “white boy wines to dancehall,” the origin of the white boy's ability to dance is attributed to skills derived from others: […] .

From Old English wine, from earlier wini.

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

  1. friend
  2. relative

wine

  1. alternative form of wyn (“wine”)

wine

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

wine

  1. alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

Inherited from Old High German wini.

wine m

  1. friend

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

wine

  1. seed
    Defepili kahitela mokesano so wine.
    They are selecting maize kernels as seed.
  2. seedlings

See the main entry.

wine

  1. (Mooring) alternative form of wune (“to win”)

From earlier Old English wini, from Proto-West Germanic *wini, from Proto-Germanic *winiz, whence also Old Dutch wini, Old Saxon wini, Old High German wini, Old Norse vinr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to seek, desire, love, win”).

wine m

  1. (poetic) friend

Used as a second element of many personal names. It could be appended to mythical creatures as in Ælfwine (“elf friend”) ; or animals as in Wulfwine (“wolf friend”); or inanimate objects as in Goldwine (“gold friend”); or locations as in Centwine (“Kent friend”); or features of nature as in Sǣwine (“sea friend”) and Æsċwine (“ash friend”); or kinds of people as in Pihtwine (“Pict friend”) and Bregowine (“prince friend”); or abstract concepts as in Ēadwine (“prosperity/happiness friend”) and Bōtwine (“repair/penance friend”). It was also often used with adjectives, usually praising the owner of the name, as in Beorhtwine (“bright friend”) and Ealdwine (“old friend”).

Strong _i_-stem:

From Proto-West Germanic *wini, from Proto-Germanic *winiz.

wine m

  1. friend
    Synonym: friūnd

wine (VII (inanimate-subject intransitive))

  1. it snows, it is snowing