vinum

vinum

1. indefinite dative plural of vinur

• vīnus (nonstandard)

From Proto-Italic *wīnom, from a thematicized form of Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.num]

vīnum n (genitive vīnī); second declension

1. wine

   In vīnō vēritās.

   In wine lies the truth.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.195–197:

     Vīna bonus quae deinde cadīs onerārat Acestēs
     lītore Trīnacriō dederatque abeuntibus hērōs
     dīvidit [...].

     Next, wine – which good Acestes had loaded in casks along the Sicilian shore, and [which that] hero had given upon our departures – [Aeneas] divided up.
     (See: Acestes/Acestes; Aeneas/Aeneas; “Trinacria” was an ancient name for Sicily/Sicily.)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.305:

     vīna quiēs sequitur

     Rest is following the wines.
     Or, in more natural English, as implied by the plural vīna:
     [Drink] [enough] wine, [and] rest follows.

2. (figuratively) grapes
3. (figuratively) a grapevine

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (wine): merum, Bacchī hūmor, Bacchus

• vappa

• “vinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vinum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to refresh oneself, minister to one's bodily wants: corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno)
    
  • to be given to drink: vino deditum esse, indulgere
    
• “vinum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vinum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

vinum

1. dative plural of vinr