cognac

Borrowed from French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.jæk/, /ˈkəʊn.jæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: konjac

cognac (countable and uncountable, plural cognacs)

2. A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.

   Major manufacturers add a small proportion of caramel to color their cognacs.

   • 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 265:

     We’d have a script meeting for the next day’s shooting that lasted until two in the morning, and he’d be up again at six for a breakfast meeting. I survived on cognac. I have no idea how he did it.

   • 2016 December 16, Peter Shadbolt, “What does a $22,000 cognac actually taste like?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     David Mason, Beverage and Bar Manager at St. Regis, describes the complex aromas and layered palate of the cognac thus: “It’s kind of autumn flavors. Really nutty, almondy – kind of fig, plum, dried fruits. But it finishes off really smoothly but with a little bit of tobacco leaf.”

• brandy, see also liquor

• Armagnac

Borrowed from French cognac.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰʌnˀjɑɡ̊]

cognac c (singular definite cognacen, plural indefinite cognacer)

1. brandy, cognac

Borrowed from French cognac.

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈjɑk/

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• Hyphenation: cog‧nac
• Rhymes: -ɑk

cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)

1. (a glass of) cognac

• cognacglas

• → Indonesian: konyak

From Cognac.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɲak/

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cognac m (plural cognacs)

1. cognac

• → Czech: koňak m
• → German: Kognak, Cognac (now more common)
• → Spanish: coñac m
• → Polish: koniak m
• → Russian: конья́к m (konʹják)

• “cognac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.