hippocras

(hipə kras′)

noun

a former cordial made of wine and spices

Origin: ME ypocras < OFr < Ypocras, Hippocrates, after ML vinum Hippocraticum, wine of Hippocrates: from being filtered through a strainer called “Hippocrates' sleeve” (L manica Hippocratis)

See hippocras in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A cordial made from wine and flavored with spices, formerly used as a medicine.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English ipocras

Origin: , from Old French ypocras, hypocras

Origin: , from alteration of Hippocras, Hippocrates

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