malvesey
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmælvəzi/
Noun
malvesey (countable and uncountable, plural malveseys)
- Alternative form of malvoisie
Middle English
Noun
malvesey
- Alternative form of malvesye
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Malvasia (“Monemvasia”, a city on the Peloponnese). From Ancient Greek Μονεμβασία (Monembasía), from μόνος (mónos, “one”) + ἔμβασις (émbasis, “entering into”, ἐν + βάσις).
Noun
malvesey m (oblique plural malveseys, nominative singular malveseys, nominative plural malvesey)
- malvoisie (wine)
- Synonyms: maumerie, malvoisin
Descendants
- French: malvoisie
- → Middle English: malvesye
- English: malvesey, malvoisie
References
- malvesey on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (malvoisie)