Other forms: vines
A vine is a climbing plant, especially the one that gives grapes. Grow a vine, on the vine, vines in rows.
It climbs because it cannot hold itself up, and tendrils, hooks or twining stems are the three ways plants solve that. Dying on the vine means failing before it ever gets going. The Latin vinum, wine, is behind the name.
1nounvineA climbing plant, especially the grape.
“Grapes hung in heavy bunches from the vines on the hillside.”
vine is a plant.
Latin vinea means a vineyard, from vinum, wine. Vineyard and wine come from the same root.
Proto-Indo-European
*weh₁y-
Middle English
vyne
English, today
vine
Built from
From Middle English vyne. From Middle English vyne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). a doublet of wine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA