cognac

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English

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Etymology

French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom.

Cognac

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒn.jæk/, /ˈkəʊn.jæk/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Homophone: konjac

Noun

cognac (countable and uncountable, plural cognacs)

  1. A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.
    Major manufacturers add a small proportion of caramel to color their cognacs.
    • 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 265:
      We’d have a script meeting for the next day’s shooting that lasted until two in the morning, and he’d be up again at six for a breakfast meeting. I survived on cognac. I have no idea how he did it.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French cognac.

Pronunciation

Noun

cognac c (singular definite cognacen, plural indefinite cognacer)

  1. brandy, cognac

Declension

Declension of cognac
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative cognac cognacen cognacer cognacerne
genitive cognacs cognacens cognacers cognacernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cognac.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔnˈjɑk/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: cog‧nac
  • Rhymes: -ɑk

Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)

  1. (a glass of) cognac

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Descendants

  • → Indonesian: konyak

French

Etymology

From Cognac.

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Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs)

  1. cognac

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