vintage

/ˈvɪntɪdʒ/VIN-tij

Meaningthe wine crop

Common meaning: the wine of one year

Other meanings: classic

vinwine; a vineyardLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1993 · scan
tpast-participle ending
agenoun ending: an act, state or collection

Journey through time

Aryan root · reconstructed√AM‘take’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 15, p. 731 · scan
Latinvīnum; vīnea‘wine’
Middle Englishvindagesource
Englishvintage‘the wine of one year’ · today

vin also in: vine vinegar vineyard

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin vīnum; vīnea ‘wine; a vineyard’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry vīnum, p. 1993 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry VINEGAR, p. 687 · dictionary scan

Roots

vīnum; vīnea Latin “wine; a vineyard”

Related words

vine vinegar vineyard

Building blocks are an automatic split · open in app