wine – English noun declension

English noun forms of wine

Noun: wine
Singularwine
Pluralwines

Sample Sentences

  • Wine is usually stronger than beer.
  • "Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.
  • And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
  • High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
  • Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
  • That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine. [1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:]
  • In Europe then [1925] we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking either wine or cider or beer. [1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:]
  • Admirers of Israel’s kosher and nonkosher wines need the 2007 edition of “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines” (Toby Press, $19.95). [2007 January 14, Howard G. Goldberg, “A Tour of Israel, Bottle by Bottle”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:]
  • The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds. [2022 January 22, Jonathan Reiner, “If you think that glass of wine is good for you, it’s time to reconsider”, in CNN:]
  • ...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...
  • I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ō
4. Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder.
5. Proto-Italic *wīnom
6. Latin vīnumbor.
7. Proto-Germanic *wīną
8. Proto-West Germanic *wīn
9. Old English wīn
10. Middle English wyn
11. English wine
12. From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum (from Proto-Italic *wīnom) from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine and vino.
13. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wien, West Frisian wyn, Dutch wijn, German Wein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vin, Faroese and Icelandic vín. See: Middle English Nouns 'wyn', Latin Nouns 'vīnum', Dutch Nouns 'wijn', German Nouns 'Wein'.

Verbs referencing "wine"

Spanish Nouns vino, Portuguese Nouns vinho, Ancient Greek Nouns οἶνος, Latvian Nouns vīns, Zulu Nouns iwayini.