malmsey
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English
Etymology
Via Middle English malmesye from Middle Dutch malemeseye, from Italian via Old French, ultimately from Ancient Greek Μονεμβασία (Monembasía, “Monemvasia”, a city on the Peloponnese), from μόνος (mónos, “only one”) + ἔμβασις (émbasis, “entering into”, ἐν + βάσις). Doublet of malvoisie.
Pronunciation
Noun
malmsey (countable and uncountable, plural malmseys)
- A sweet fortified wine made in Madeira, originally from the malvasia grape.
- Synonym: malvoisie
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York, published 2001, page 223:
- All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like
Translations
wine made from malvasia
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Middle English
Noun
malmsey
- Alternative form of malmesye