vinous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From LateMiddle Englishvinous,vinose(“consisting of, containing, or made of wine”),[1]fromLatinvīnōsus(“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”),fromvīnum(“wine”)[2]+-ōsus(adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation,General American)IPA(key):/ˈvaɪnəs/
Audio(UK): (file) - Rhymes:-aɪnəs
- Hyphenation:vin‧ous
Adjective
[edit]vinous(comparativemorevinous,superlativemostvinous)
- Pertaining to or having thecharacteristicsofwine.
- 1768,Mr. Yorick [pseudonym;Laurence Sterne], “Preface in the Desobligeant”, inA Sentimental Journey through France and Italy,volume I, London:[…]T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt,[…],→OCLC,pages29–30:
- 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 ofvinousliquor; [...]
- Involvingtheuseof wine.
- Synonym:(containing wine)vinaceous
- 1854,Charles Dickens,“Husband and Wife”, inHard Times. For These Times,London:Bradbury & Evans,[…],→OCLC,book the first (Sowing),pages127–128:
- The bride, in passing down stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her—flushed, either with his feelings, or thevinouspart of the breakfast.
- Having thecolourofred wine;vinaceous.
- 1853,[Thomas] Mayne Reid,“The Shrike and the Humming-birds”, inThe 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,page268:
- [...] 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 beautifulvinouscolour under the throat of the males exhibits, in the sun, all the glancing glories of the ruby.
- 1904,Gustave Flaubert,“Tanith”, inSalammbô: A Romance of Ancient Carthage[…],volume III, Chicago, Ill.: Simon P. Magee,→OCLC,page99:
- Day was breaking, and the sheets of talc in the walls were filled with avinouscolour.
- Tendingtodrinkwineexcessively.
- 1869,William Francis Collier, “William Shakspere”,inA History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches,London, Edinburgh, New York, N.Y.:T[homas]Nelson and Sons,[…],→OCLC,page146:
- Yet fat andvinousoldJack Falstaff,whose portraiture is the happiest hit in all the varied range of English comedy, must be sought for in other scenes.
- 1898July 2, “The NewDipsomania”, inPunch, or The London Charivari,volume CXIV, London: Published at the office, 85,Fleet Street,→OCLC,stanza I,page309:
- Old Simon the Soakernowkeeps a rare store / Of Malmsey and Malvoisie / In tub-fuls of hundreds of litres or more, / For avinousold soul is he—e, / A porous old so—ul is he; [...]
- 1899August 25,Raymond Asquith,“Letter to H. T. Baker”, in John Jolliffe, editor,Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters,London:Collins,published1980,→ISBN:
- It is one of the most trying things about this life, this necessity of laughing uproariously whenvinousold men say things that are dirty but not funny; else one is written down as a prig.
- 2016,Christopher Chase Walker,The Visitor[1],Winchester, Hampshire: Cosmic Egg Books,→ISBN:
- She was found wounded and amnesic by avinousold 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.
- Affectedby thedrinkingof wine.
- 1821August 8, [Lord Byron],Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V,London:[…]Thomas Davison,[…],→OCLC,canto III, stanza XLII,page24:
- ThevinousGreek to whom he had address'd / His question, much too merry to divine / The questioner, fill'd up a glass of wine, [...]
- 1847January –1848July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out”, inVanity Fair[…],London:Bradbury and Evans[…],published1848,→OCLC,page305:
- "Come, come," said James, putting his hand to his nose and winking at his cousin with a pair ofvinouseyes, "no jokes, old boy; no trying it on on me. [...]"
- 1927,Edgar Wallace,“The Honeymoon”, inThe Man Who Was Nobody,London:Ward, Lock & Co.,→OCLC;republished Looe, Cornwall: House of Stratus,2001,→ISBN,page110:
- 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 thatvinousbreath.
- 1891,Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, inTess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented[…],volume I, London:James R[ipley]Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.,[…],→OCLC,phase the first (The Maiden),pages40–41:
- 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 seekingvinousbliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
- 1925,F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald,chapter 3, inThe Great Gatsby,New York, N.Y.:Charles Scribner’s Sons,published1953,→ISBN,→OCLC,page51:
- [S]he threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deepvinoussleep.
- 1928,Robert Byron,“Society”, inThe Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece,London:Duckworth,→OCLC;reprinted London, New York, N.Y.: Tauris Parke Paperbacks,I.B. Tauris and Co.,2011,→ISBN,page125:
- Gripped by avinouspentecost,I launched into speech [...]
- 2010,Christopher Hitchens,Hitch-22: A Memoir[2],London:Atlantic Books,→ISBN;republished London: Atlantic Books,2011,→ISBN,page254:
- It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed,vinousreverie on American grandeur the previous night.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine
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affected by drinking wine
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See also
[edit]- (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,vermilion,vinaceous,vinous,violet red,wine(Category:en:Reds)
References
[edit]- ^“vīnǒus,adj.”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
- ^“vinous,adj.”,inOED Online
,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,1917;“vinous,adj.”,inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vinous
Declension
[edit]Inflectionofvinous(Kotustype 40*F/kalleus,t-dgradation) | |||
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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 | |
abessive | vinoudetta | vinouksitta | |
instructive | — | vinouksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “vinous”,inKielitoimiston sanakirja[Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3](in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus(Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–,retrieved2023-07-04
Anagrams
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[edit]Alternative forms
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]vinous(Late Middle English,rare)
- vinous(relating to wine)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “vīnǒus,adj.”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007,retrieved10 April 2020.
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