vinus

Masculine counterpart to vīnum in certain informal lects, possibly by analogy with Ancient Greek οἶνος (oînos) or due to a general trend towards reassigning neuters to other genders.

vīnus m (genitive vīnī); second declension

1. nonstandard form of vīnum (“wine”)
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 41:

     Vīnus mihi in cerebrum abiit.

     The wine has gone to my head.

Second-declension noun.

• "vinus", 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)