liqueur

liqueur

See also: liquor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɪˈkjʊə/, /lɪˈkjɔː/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɪˈk(j)ɝ/, /lɪˈk(j)ɔɹ/, /lɪˈkjuɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə, -ɔː(ɹ)

Noun

liqueur (countable and uncountable, plural liqueurs)

1. A flavoured alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol. Cordials are a type of liqueur manufactured using the infusion process as opposed to the essence and distillation processes.

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to liqueur

• liquid
• liquidate
• liquidation
• liquidator
• liquidity
• liquidizer
• liquor

Translations

a flavored alcoholic beverage

Albanian: liker (sq) m Arabic: لِيكْيُور‎ m (likyur) Armenian: լիկյոր (hy) (likyor) Azerbaijani: likör Belarusian: лікёр m (likjór) Bulgarian: ликьо́р m (likjór) Chinese: Cantonese: 力嬌酒, 力娇酒 (lik6giu1zau2), 利口酒 (lei6 hau2 zau2) Mandarin: 利口酒 (zh) (lìkǒujiǔ) Czech: likér (cs) m Danish: likør (da) c Dutch: likeur (nl) m or f Esperanto: likvoro Estonian: liköör Finnish: likööri (fi) French: liqueur (fr) f, ratafia (fr) f Galician: licor m Georgian: ლიქიორი (likiori) German: Likör (de) m Greek: ηδύποτο (el) n (idýpoto), λικέρ (el) n (likér) Hebrew: לִיקֶר‎ (he) m Hungarian: likőr (hu) Icelandic: líkjör (is) m Indonesian: likeur Irish: licéar m Italian: liquore (it) m Japanese: リキュール (ja) (rikyūru) Kazakh: ликёр (liker) Korean: 리큐어 (rikyueo) Kyrgyz: ликёр (likyor) Latvian: liķieris m Lithuanian: likeris m Macedonian: ликер m (liker) Norman: litcheu f Persian: لیکور‎ (fa) (likor) Polish: likier (pl) m Portuguese: licor (pt) m Romanian: lichior (ro) n Russian: ликёр (ru) m (likjór) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ликер m Roman: liker (sh) m Slovak: likér m Slovene: liker (sl) m Spanish: licor (es) m Swedish: likör (sv) c Tajik: ликёр (likyor) Turkish: likör (tr) Ukrainian: ліке́р m (likér) Uzbek: likyor (uz) Vietnamese: rượu mùi (vi) Vilamovian: likȫr m

See also

• cordial
• ratafia

Further reading

• liqueur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

liqueur (third-person singular simple present liqueurs, present participle liqueuring, simple past and past participle liqueured)

1. to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
2. to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution

   Every champagne has to be liqueured after its disgorgement, to replace the inevitable loss.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin liquor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.kœʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

liqueur f (plural liqueurs)

1. alcoholic liqueur
2. (literary) drinkable liquid
3. (Canada) fizzy drink, pop
4. (obsolete) liquid
5. (Louisiana) liquor

Usage notes

• Liqueur and liquor are false friends: French liqueur never applies to alcoholic drinks in general.
• The Quebec use of the term is frequently targeted as an anglicism (from liquor), even though the meaning ("non-alcoholic drink") is older and has little connection to either English term.

Derived terms

• liqueur de dosage
• liqueur de tirage

Further reading

• “liqueur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Noun

liqueur n (plural liqueururi)

1. Obsolete form of lichior.

Declension

Declension of liqueur

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) liqueur	liqueurul	(niște) liqueururi	liqueururile
genitive/dative	(unui) liqueur	liqueurului	(unor) liqueururi	liqueururilor
vocative	liqueurule		liqueururilor

References

• liqueur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN