eau-de-vie
See also: eau de vie
English
Noun
eau-de-vie (countable and uncountable, plural eau-de-vies or eaus-de-vie or eaux-de-vie)
- Alternative spelling of eau de vie.
French
Etymology
Calque of Medieval Latin aqua vītae (literally “water of life”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.d(ə).vi/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: eaux-de-vie
Noun
eau-de-vie f (plural eaux-de-vie)
- synonym of brandy
Descendants
- → English: eau de vie
Further reading
- “eau-de-vie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Noun
eau-de-vie c
- a fortified cognac-like liquor
- Synonym: folkkonjak
- eau de vie
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | eau-de-vie | eau-de-vies |
| definite | eau-de-vien | eau-de-viens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |