vintage

From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).

• enPR: vĭnʹtĭj, IPA^(key): /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/

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vintage (countable and uncountable, plural vintages)

1. The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
2. Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes:

     I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

3. The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
4. The year or place in which something is produced.

• make vintage
• vintage port

vintage (comparative more vintage, superlative most vintage)

1. (attributively) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
2. (attributively) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality.
3. (attributively) Classic (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
   1. (Of a motor car) built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA).
   2. (Of a watch) produced between the years 1870 and 1980.

• → French: vintage
• → Polish: vintage
• → Spanish: vintage

vintage (third-person singular simple present vintages, present participle vintaging, simple past and past participle vintaged)

1. (transitive) To harvest (grapes).
2. (transitive) To make (wine) from grapes.

• vintaging

• classic
• veteran

• “vintage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “vintage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Vigeant, vagient

Borrowed from English vintage.

• IPA^(key): /vin.tɛdʒ/, /vɛ̃.taʒ/

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vintage (plural vintages)

1. vintage (clarification of this definition is needed)

• “vintage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English vintage, from Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge, from Latin vindēmia, from vīnum + dēmō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvin.tɨt͡ʂ/

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• Rhymes: -intɨt͡ʂ
• Syllabification: vin‧tage

vintage n (indeclinable)

1. vintage (wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin)
2. vintage (vogue for old items)

• vintage in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English vintage. Doublet of vendimia.

• IPA^(key): /binˈtaxe/ [bĩn̪ˈt̪a.xe]
• Rhymes: -axe
• Syllabification: vin‧ta‧ge

vintage m or f (masculine and feminine plural vintages)

1. vintage