bisschopswijn

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • bisschopwijn

Etymology

Compound of bisschop (“bishop (rank); bishop, mulled wine”) +‎ -s- +‎ wijn (“wine”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɪ.sxɔpsˌʋɛi̯n/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bis‧schops‧wijn

Noun

bisschopswijn m (plural bisschopswijnen, diminutive bisschopswijntje n)

  1. a type of mulled wine, often drunk on and before Saint Nicholas' Eve (December 5), made of oranges; bishop's wine [from 19th c.]

Coordinate terms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.