Wine definition
I'd like three beers and two wines, please.
An example of wine is Cabernet Sauvignon made from fermented grapes.
An example of wine as a color is the color of red wine.
Dandelion wine.
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Origin of wine
- Middle English from Old English wīn from Latin vīnum
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English win, from Old English wÄ«n, from Proto-Germanic *wÄ«nÄ… (compare Dutch wijn, German Wein, Icelandic vín), from Latin vÄ«num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóih₁nom (compare Hittite wiyan [Cuneiform?], Armenian Õ£Õ«Õ¶Õ« (gini), Albanian verë, Ancient Greek οἶνος (oinos), neuter of *wih₁ḗn 'grapevine' (compare Ancient Greek wiḗn), from *weih- 'to plait, wattle' (compare Norwegian vegg (“wall"), Latin vieō (“to bind, interweave"), Serbo-Croatian vȉjem (“I twist, wind"), Sanskrit [script?] (vájati, “he weaves").
From Wiktionary