VINOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (VY-nuhs)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to, resembling, or containing wine.
2. Having the color of red wine.
3. Given to drinking wine excessively or showing the effects of doing so.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vinum (wine), which also gave us vintage and vignette. Earliest documented use: 15th c.
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VINCUS - a periwinkle plant

VINOUT - no more French wine!

VI NOUS - we six Parisians