vermouth

vermouth

English

Etymology

From French vermout, vermouth, from German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of wormwood.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəˈmuːθ/, /ˈvɜːməθ/

• Audio (RP)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɚˈmuθ/
• Rhymes: -uːθ

Noun

vermouth (countable and uncountable, plural vermouths)

1. A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.

   Hyponyms: Martini, (dated slang) French

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

   • 2014, Ray Foley, Bartending For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 116:

     Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.

2. A serving of vermouth.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 201:

     As we sat over our vermuths he glorified the Company’s business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there.

Translations

wine infused with herbs

Arabic: إِسْفِنْط‎ m (ʾisfinṭ) (in antiquity), فِيرْمُوت‎ m (firmut) Aramaic: אפסינתינון‎ m (ap̄sinṭīnōn), אפסנתין‎ m (ap̄sinṭīn) Armenian: վերմուտ (hy) (vermut) Asturian: vermú m Basque: bermut Belarusian: вермут (vjermut) Bulgarian: вермут m (vermut) Catalan: vermut (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 威末酒 (wai1 mut6 zau2) Mandarin: 味美思 (zh) (wèiměisī) Chuvash: bермут (bermut) Czech: vermut (cs) m Esperanto: vermuto Estonian: vermut Finnish: vermutti (fi) French: vermouth (fr) m Galician: vermú m Georgian: ვერმუთი (vermuti) German: Wermut (de) m Greek: βερμούτ (el) n (vermoút) Ancient: ἀψινθίτης m (apsinthítēs) Byzantine: ἀψίνθιον n (apsínthion), ἀψινθίατον n (apsinthíaton) Hebrew: ורמוט‎ Hungarian: vermut (hu), ürmös (hu), ürmösbor (hu) Icelandic: vermút n Ido: vermuto (io) Interlingua: vermut Irish: fíon mormónta m Italian: vermut m Japanese: ベルモット (berumotto) Javanese: vermouth Korean: 베르무트 (bereumuteu) Latin: absinthium n, absinthiātum n Lithuanian: vermutas Macedonian: вермут m (vermut) Norwegian: Bokmål: vermut Persian: ورموت‎ (fa) (vermut) Polish: wermut (pl) m Portuguese: vermute (pt) m Romanian: vermut (ro) n Russian: ве́рмут (ru) m (vérmut) Serbo-Croatian: vermut (sh) m Slovak: vermut Spanish: vermú (es) m, vermut Swedish: vermouth (sv) c, vermut (sv) c Tagalog: bermut Turkish: vermut (tr) Ukrainian: вермут (vermut) Volapük: vemut Welsh: fermŵth m

Further reading

• vermouth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From German Wermut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.mut/

• Audio

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Noun

vermouth m (plural vermouths)

1. vermouth

Descendants

• → English: vermouth
• → Romanian: vermut
• → Turkish: vermut

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

vermouth

1. vermouth