Dictionary formvinum, vini(neuter)

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Translation

wine

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Grammar

Genderneuter

Cases

Casesingularplural
Nominativethe subjectvinumvina
Vocativecalling someone: O ...vinumvina
Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), pervinumvina
Genitiveofvinivinorum
Dativeto, forvinovinis
Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sinevinovinis

Examples

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He put wine and bread on the table.

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He drank too much wine and fell asleep.

miscuerunt.

They mixed water with the wine.

Italiae .

The wines of Italy are the best.

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Without wine nobody was cheerful.

Vinum, vini, n., second declension neuter. The i is long, which matters if you are scanning verse.

Romans drank it mixed with water as a matter of routine and thought merum, unmixed wine, the mark of a drunk or a barbarian, so vinum in a Latin text normally means the diluted stuff rather than anything you would recognise from a bottle. The plural vina means kinds or vintages, not quantities. The word is old and travelled far: it sits beside Greek oinos, and from it come French vin, Spanish vino, Italian vino, and English wine, vine, vintage and vinegar, which is vin aigre, sour wine.

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This word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 2: vinum, arbor, quisquis and 7 more words.