vinous

vinous

English

WOTD – 25 November 2019

Etymology

From Late Middle English vinous, vinose (“consisting of, containing, or made of wine”),[1] from Latin vīnōsus (“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”), from vīnum (“wine”)[2] + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪnəs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəs
• Hyphenation: vin‧ous

Adjective

vinous (comparative more vinous, superlative most vinous)

1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.
   • 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “Preface in the Desobligeant”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], OCLC 61680753, pages 29–30:

     The man who firſt tranſplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope (obſerve he was a Dutchman) never dreamt of drinking the ſame wine at the Cape, that the ſame grape produced upon the French mountains—he was too phlegmatic for that—but undoubtedly he expected to drink ſome ſort of vinous liquor; [...]

   1. Involving the use of wine.

      Synonym: (containing wine) vinaceous

      • 1854, Charles Dickens, “Husband and Wife”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], OCLC 4389957, book the first (Sowing), pages 127–128:

        The bride, in passing down stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her—flushed, either with his feelings, or the vinous part of the breakfast.

   2. Having the colour of red wine; vinaceous.
      • 1853, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “The Shrike and the Humming-birds”, in The Young Voyageurs, or The Boy Hunters in the North, London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Co., OCLC 858451217, page 268:

        [...] François' quick eye detected the presence of some very small birds moving among the blossoms. They were at once pronounced to be humming-birds, and of that species known as the "ruby-throats" (Trochilus rolubris), so called, because a flake of a beautiful vinous colour under the throat of the males exhibits, in the sun, all the glancing glories of the ruby.

      • 1904, Gustave Flaubert, “Tanith”, in Salammbô: A Romance of Ancient Carthage […], volume III, Chicago, Ill.: Simon P. Magee, OCLC 22602996, page 99:

        Day was breaking, and the sheets of talc in the walls were filled with a vinous colour.

2. Tending to drink wine excessively.
   • 1869, William Francis Collier, “William Shakspere”, in A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches, London; Edinburgh, New York, N.Y.: T[homas] Nelson and Sons, […], OCLC 9231629, page 146:

     Yet fat and vinous old Jack Falstaff, whose portraiture is the happiest hit in all the varied range of English comedy, must be sought for in other scenes.

   • 1883, Fun, London: Published for the proprietors, OCLC 752198897, page 168, column 1:

     Curiosity induced him to ask the wild-eyed vinous old man if he knew the lady.

   • 1898 July 2, “The New Dipsomania”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXIV, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, OCLC 732224722, stanza I, page 309:

     Old Simon the Soaker now keeps a rare store / Of Malmsey and Malvoisie / In tub-fuls of hundreds of litres or more, / For a vinous old soul is he—e, / A porous old so—ul is he; [...]

   • 1899 August 25, Raymond Asquith, “Letter to H. T. Baker”, in John Jolliffe, editor, Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters, London: Collins, published 1980, →ISBN:

     It is one of the most trying things about this life, this necessity of laughing uproariously when vinous old men say things that are dirty but not funny; else one is written down as a prig.

   • 2016, Christopher Chase Walker, The Visitor‎, Winchester, Hampshire: Cosmic Egg Books, →ISBN:

     She was found wounded and amnesic by a vinous old farmer who, charitable and eccentric (or just radiantly bonkers), nursed her back to health in some ramshackle barn or outbuilding of his after the local Gendarmerie had investigated, photographed, swept up and hosed down the crash scene.

3. Affected by the drinking of wine.
   • 1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], OCLC 489750426, canto III, stanza XLII, page 24:

     The vinous Greek to whom he had address'd / His question, much too merry to divine / The questioner, fill'd up a glass of wine, [...]

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108, page 305:

     "Come, come," said James, putting his hand to his nose and winking at his cousin with a pair of vinous eyes, "no jokes, old boy; no trying it on on me. [...]"

   • 1927, Edgar Wallace, “The Honeymoon”, in The Man Who Was Nobody, London: Ward, Lock & Co., OCLC 1056252208; republished Looe, Cornwall: House of Stratus, 2001, →ISBN, page 110:

     Once she had been kissed by a man in wine (the memory recalled Lady Tynewood and the parties she gave) and she had never forgotten the hated smell of that vinous breath.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:

     In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN, page 51:

     [S]he threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep.

   • 1928, Robert Byron, “Society”, in The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece, London: Duckworth, OCLC 253624610; reprinted London; New York, N.Y.: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris and Co., 2011, →ISBN, page 125:

     Gripped by a vinous pentecost, I launched into speech [...]

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir‎, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN; republished London: Atlantic Books, 2011, →ISBN, page 254:

     It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.

Synonyms

• vinose

Derived terms

• vinous liquor
• vinously
• vinousness

Related terms

• vinaceous
• vinosity

Translations

pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine

Arabic: روحاني‎ (rawḥāniyy, rūḥāniyy) Bulgarian: винвн (vinvn) Finnish: viinimäinen, viininen French: vineux (fr) Old French: vineus f Georgian: ღვინის (ɣvinis), ღვინისებური (ɣviniseburi) Greek: Ancient Greek: οἴνινος (oíninos), οἰνηρός (oinērós) Irish: fíonda Italian: vinoso (it) Latin: vīneus, vīnōsus Middle English: vinous, wyny Portuguese: vínico Russian: винно-кра́сный (vinno-krásnyj) Spanish: vinoso

affected by drinking wine

Bulgarian: подпийнал (podpijnal) Finnish: viinihumalainen

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

1. “vīnǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
2. “vinous, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1917; “vinous, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

• wine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Etymology

vino +‎ -us

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋinous/, [ˈʋino̞us̠]
• Rhymes: -inous
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧no‧us

Noun

vinous

1. obliqueness
2. (probability theory) skewness

Declension

Inflection of vinous (Kotus type 40/kalleus, t-d gradation)
nominative		vinous	vinoudet
genitive		vinouden	vinouksien
partitive		vinoutta	vinouksia
illative		vinouteen	vinouksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		vinous	vinoudet
accusative	nom.	vinous	vinoudet
	gen.	vinouden
genitive		vinouden	vinouksien
partitive		vinoutta	vinouksia
inessive		vinoudessa	vinouksissa
elative		vinoudesta	vinouksista
illative		vinouteen	vinouksiin
adessive		vinoudella	vinouksilla
ablative		vinoudelta	vinouksilta
allative		vinoudelle	vinouksille
essive		vinoutena	vinouksina
translative		vinoudeksi	vinouksiksi
instructive		—	vinouksin
abessive		vinoudetta	vinouksitta
comitative		—	vinouksineen

Possessive forms of vinous (type kalleus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	vinouteni	vinoutemme
2nd person	vinoutesi	vinoutenne
3rd person	vinoutensa

Anagrams

• vuosin

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• vinose, vynose

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīnōsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːnus/, /viːˈnɔːs/

Adjective

vinous (Late Middle English, rare)

1. vinous (relating to wine)

Descendants

• English: vinous, vinose

References

• “vīnǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 April 2020.