vinasse
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French vinasse, ultimately from Latin vīnācea.
Pronunciation
Noun
vinasse (countable and uncountable, plural vinasses)
- (chemistry) The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.
Translations
Translations
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vinasse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Probably from Occitan vinassa, from Latin vīnācea. First attested in the mid–18th c.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
vinasse f (plural vinasses)
- (chemistry) vinasse
- Synonym: eauvotte
- (informal, derogatory) plonk (poor-quality, bad-tasting wine)
- Synonym: pinard
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: vinasse
References
- ^ Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/βiˈn-aki-a/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
Further reading
- “vinasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.