Bordeaux
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Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux.
Bordeaux
English
Alternative forms
- bordeaux (common noun)
Etymology
From French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bôr-dōʹ
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɔɹˈdoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːˈdəʊ/
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- Rhymes: -əʊ
Proper noun
Bordeaux
- The capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Derived terms
Translations
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Noun
Bordeaux (countable and uncountable, plural Bordeaux or Bordeauxes or Bordeauxs)
- A wine coming from that area.
- We had a nice bottle of Bordeaux last night.
- 1989, Upscale: The Successful Black Magazine, page 68:
- Some fine Bordeauxes and Cabernets actually grow smoother as they sit, and are better served seven or eight years old.
- Short for Bordeaux mixture.
- 1898, Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Stations:
- The two Bordeauxs used differed only in the percentage of lime which they contained.
- 1911, Station Bulletin, volumes 152–165, page 28:
- The patent Bordeauxs which are on the market have not been shown to be any less liable to produce injury than the home-made mixtures, amd many of them have proven quite inefficient in controlling diseases.
- 1925, Drug and Chemical Markets, volume 16, page 338:
- Contrary to the views of many of the backers of Pickering Bordeaux, we have found a three to one Bordeaux just as good a fungicide as a Bordeaux in which only just enough lime is used to throw down all of the copper as a precipitate.
- 1998, Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide:
- Avoid overhead irrigation After harvest and before fall rains, prune out and destroy old wood and apply a Bordeaux or a fixed copper fungicide. Spray again in spring when new laterals are leafing out[.]
Finnish
Etymology
From French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bordeaux
- Bordeaux (the capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Declension
| Inflection of Bordeaux (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Bordeaux | — | ||
| genitive | Bordeaux’n | — | ||
| partitive | Bordeaux’ta | — | ||
| illative | Bordeaux’hon | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Bordeaux | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Bordeaux | — | |
| gen. | Bordeaux’n | |||
| genitive | Bordeaux’n | — | ||
| partitive | Bordeaux’ta | — | ||
| inessive | Bordeaux’ssa | — | ||
| elative | Bordeaux’sta | — | ||
| illative | Bordeaux’hon | — | ||
| adessive | Bordeaux’lla | — | ||
| ablative | Bordeaux’lta | — | ||
| allative | Bordeaux’lle | — | ||
| essive | Bordeaux’na | — | ||
| translative | Bordeaux’ksi | — | ||
| abessive | Bordeaux’tta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Derived terms
compounds
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French Bordeaulx, from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bordeaux m
- Bordeaux (the capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- a surname
Derived terms
Related terms
- bordelais; Bordelais m, Bordelaise f
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French Bordeaux.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔr.dɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔrdɔ
- Syllabification: Bor‧deaux
- Homophones: bordeaux, bordo
Proper noun
Bordeaux n (indeclinable, related adjective bordoski)
- Bordeaux (the capital and largest city of the Gironde department, France; capital and largest city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Related terms
nouns