martini

Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Martin.

martini (genitive)

1. Martin (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms having English names of the form "Martin's ..."

• martinii

• Martini
• martinus (hypercorrect, humorous)

See Martini.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑɹˈtini/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɑːˈtiːni/

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• Rhymes: -iːni

martini (countable and uncountable, plural martinis)

1. A cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth.

   Will you join us at six o’clock for martinis?

   My boss is out on another of his three-martini lunches.

   • 1961 Jan, Robert Silverberg, Amazing Stories, page 26, column 2:

     Even at Juneau's prices, ten dollars worth of martinis is a lot of liquor to drink in an hour.

   • c. 1963, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Symmetries & Asymmetries”, in Edward Mendelson, editor, Collected Poems, New York: Random House, published 1976, →ISBN, page 551:

     Could any tiger
     Drink martinis, smoke cigars,
     And last as we do?

   • 1997, Caroline Courtauld, May Holdsworth, The Hong Kong Story, Oxford, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 21:

     He drank martini, played bridge in the club, and captured treaty-port life wickedly.

   • 2006, Joan [Elizabeth] Taylor, Conversations with Mr. Prain, Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, page 172:

     I had the feeling that had he been a smoker he would have lit a cigarette at this moment. I suspected that once he had been a smoker, for he seemed as if he wished someone would offer him one. He drank martini instead.

   • 2007, Margaret S. Ngwa, Divine Love for Cleansing, Patron Publishing House, →ISBN, page 63:

     After the meal, they drank martini on the rocks in the lounge.

2. (sometimes proscribed) Any cocktail served in a cocktail glass, often sweet or fruity and aimed at women.

   I love the chocolate martinis at Trendy Bar!

• → Japanese: マティーニ (matīni)

• Martini (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• antimir, itramin

From English martini.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrtini/, [ˈmɑ̝rt̪ini]
• Rhymes: -ɑrtini
• Syllabification^(key): mar‧ti‧ni
• Hyphenation^(key): mar‧ti‧ni

martini

1. martini

• “martini”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

martini m

1. plural of martino

Unadapted borrowing from English martini.

• IPA^(key): /marˈti.ɲi/
• Rhymes: -iɲi
• Syllabification: mar‧ti‧ni

martini n (indeclinable)

1. martini (cocktail)

• martini in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /maɾˈtini/ [maɾˈt̪i.ni]
• Rhymes: -ini
• Syllabification: mar‧ti‧ni

martini m (plural martinis)

1. martini

• “martini”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024