Just out of curiosity or perhaps you might want to relish a glass of wine in a country where English language isn’t on the top of their list you find useful to know how is your favourite liquid called locally.
I don’t just mean the proud French waiter in a Parisian bistro chasing you to pronounce the “vin” correctly despite knowing exactly what “a glass of wine” means but there are plenty of places you travel to where the word “wine” can mean something very different.
Today, there is even a vigourous discussion about what the English word “wine” means, whether it is an alcoholic beverage or if it also refers to a non fermented grape juice. This topic is well researched by the author Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D., Andrews University in his book Wine in the Bible. The chapter ““ online sums it up.
But now, lets move to today’s wine, the wine as defined by the New Oxford Dictionary as:
an alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice.
• [with adj. ] an alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of specified other fruits or plants
an alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice.• [with adj. ] an alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of specified other fruits or plants
French: VIN
Italian: VINO
Spanish: VINO
German: WEIN
Chinese (traditional): 酒 pronounced Jiǔ
Japanese: ワイン pronounced wain
Filipino: ALAK
Finnish: VIINI
Polish: WINO
Russian: вино or виноград pronounced vino
Latin vinum, the Greek oinos, and the Hebrew yayin.