vinum

vinum

See also: vínům

Icelandic

Noun

vinum

1. indefinite dative plural of vinur

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Latin

duo pocula vini, primum vino rubro impletum, alter vino albo

Alternative forms

• (Vulgate Latin) vīnus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.num/, [ˈu̯iːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.num/, [ˈviːnum]

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Noun

vīnum n (genitive vīnī); second declension

1. wine
   • In vīnō vēritās.

     In wine lies the truth.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.195-197:

     Vīna bonus quae deinde cadīs onerārat Acestēs
     lītore Trīnacriō dederatque abeuntibus hērōs
     dīvidit [...].

     Next, wine – which good Acestes had loaded in casks along the Sicilian shore, and [which that] hero had given upon our departures – [Aeneas] divided up.
     (See: Acestes/Acestes; Aeneas/Aeneas; “Trinacria” was an ancient name for Sicily/Sicily.)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.305:

     vīna quiēs sequitur

     Rest is following the wines.
     Or, in more natural English, as implied by the plural vīna:
     [Drink] [enough] wine, [and] rest follows.

2. (figuratively) grapes
3. (figuratively) a grapevine

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīnum	vīna
Genitive	vīnī	vīnōrum
Dative	vīnō	vīnīs
Accusative	vīnum	vīna
Ablative	vīnō	vīnīs
Vocative	vīnum	vīna

Synonyms

• (wine): merum, Bacchi humor

Hyponyms

• vappa

Derived terms

• in vīnō vēritās
• vīnācea
• vīnāceum
• vīnāceus
• Vīnālia
• vīnālis
• vīnāriārius
• vīnārium
• vīnārius
• vīndēmia
• vīndēmiālis
• vīndēmiātor
• vīndēmiātōrius
• vīndēmiō
• vīndēmiola
• vīnea
• vīneālis
• vīneārius
• vīneāticus
• vīnētum
• vīneus
• vīnibua
• vīnifer
• vīnitor
• vīnitōrius
• vīnolentia
• vīnolentus
• vīnōsitās
• vīnōsus

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: yin, yinu
  • Istro-Romanian: vir
  • Megleno-Romanian: vin
  • Romanian: vin
• Dalmatian:
  • vain
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: vin
  • Istriot: veîn, vèin
  • Ladin: vin
  • Ligurian: vin
  • Lombard: vin
  • Piedmontese: vin
  • Romagnol: vẽn, vèin, vòin
  • Romansch: vin, vegn
  • Venetian: vin
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vino
    • → English: vino
    • → Sidamo: viino
  • Neapolitan: vino
  • Sicilian: vinu
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: vin
  • Old French: vin (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: vi
  • Occitan: vin
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: bin
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: vinu
    • Extremaduran: vinu
    • Leonese: vinu
    • Mirandese: bino
  • Old Portuguese: vỹo, vinno
    • Fala: viñu
    • Galician: viño, vĩo (Ancarese)
    • Portuguese: vinho (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: vino
    • Ladino: vino
    • Spanish: vino (see there for further descendants)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: binu
• Borrowings:
  • → Proto-Celtic: *wīnom (see there for further descendants)
  • → Etruscan: 𐌅𐌉𐌍𐌖𐌌 (vinum)
  • → Proto-Germanic: *wīną (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-Slavic: *vino (see there for further descendants)

References

• “vinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vinum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to refresh oneself, minister to one's bodily wants: corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno)
    
  • to be given to drink: vino deditum esse, indulgere
    
• “vinum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vinum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Old Norse

Noun

vinum

1. dative plural of vinr