Other forms: wines
Wine is the alcoholic drink made from grapes. Red wine, a glass of wine, a bottle of wine.
Red, white and rosé are the three colours, and the difference comes from whether the skins stay in — red grapes make white wine if the skins are removed. Vintage means the year of harvest. Wines made from other fruit are named for them: elderflower wine. Note wine and dine, meaning to entertain expensively; and that in vino veritas means people tell the truth when drunk, which is roughly right.
1nounwineAn alcoholic drink made from grapes.
“Would you like a glass of red wine with your dinner?”
wine is a drink.
Latin vinum came into Germanic before Old English existed, along with viticulture itself. Almost every European language has a version of it, which suggests the drink and the word travelled together.
Middle English
wyn
English, today
wine
From Middle English wyn. 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”). a doublet of vine and vino. Cognate with stq Wien, West Frisian wyn, Dutch wijn, German Wein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vin, Faroese and Icelandic vín.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA