vint

English

Etymology 1

Probably a back-formation from vintage, interpreted as vint + -age. Ultimately from Latin vinum (“wine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪnt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Verb

vint (third-person singular simple present vints, present participle vinting, simple past and past participle vinted)

1. To make wine from fruit.

See also

• brew
• distill

Etymology 2

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Wikipedia

Borrowed from Russian винт (vint, “screw”).

Noun

vint (uncountable)

1. (games) A Russian card game similar to bridge and whist.

Synonyms

• Russian whist

Translations

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Russian винт (vint, “screw”), from Polish gwint, from German Gewinde.

Noun

vint (definite accusative vinti, plural vintlər)

1. screw
2. propeller

Declension

Further reading

• “vint” in Obastan.com.

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vīgintī (“twenty”) (compare Occitan vint, French vingt, Spanish veinte).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -int

Numeral

vint m or f

1. (cardinal number) twenty

Noun

vint m (plural vints)

1. twenty

Crimean Tatar

Noun

vint

1. screw, wind

Estonian

Etymology 1

From German Fink.

Noun

vint (genitive vindi, partitive vinti)

1. finch

Declension

Etymology 2

From Russian винт (vint, “screw”).

Noun

vint (genitive vindi, partitive vinti)

1. screw
2. propeller
3. (colloquial) rifle
4. (colloquial) tipsiness (slight drunkenness)
5. vint (card game)

Declension

Etymology 3

From German Wind.

Noun

vint (genitive vindi, partitive vinti)

1. strong sea winds

Declension

Further reading

• “vint”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

References

• vint in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛ̃/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Homophones: vain, vainc, vaincs, vains, vin, vingt, vingts, vins, vînt

Verb

vint

1. third-person singular past historic of venir

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin ventus.

Noun

vint m (plural vints)

1. wind

Related terms

• stravint

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin vīgintī.

Adjective

vint

1. twenty

Noun

vint m (uncountable)

1. twenty

Megleno-Romanian

Alternative forms

• vintu

Etymology

From Latin ventus. Compare Romanian vînt, Aromanian vimtu.

Noun

vint n

1. wind

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Catalan vint), from Latin vīgintī (“twenty”) (compare French vingt, Spanish veinte, Italian venti), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti(h₁) (“two tens, two decades”), *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Numeral

vint

1. (cardinal number) twenty

Derived terms

• vinten

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vīgintī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvint/

Numeral

vint

1. twenty

Descendants

• French: vingt
  • Haitian Creole: ven
  • Louisiana Creole: vin
  • Mauritian Creole: vin
  • → Garifuna: wein
• Norman: vîngt, vingt
• Walloon: vint

Old Norse

Adjective

vint

1. positive degree strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of vindr

Picard

Etymology

From Latin ventus.

Noun

vint m (plural vints)

1. wind

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vīgintī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viŋt/

Numeral

vint

1. twenty

Walloon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɛ̃/

Etymology 1

From Old French vint, from Latin vīgintī.

Numeral

vint

1. twenty

   Leyîz bouyter vint munutes.

   Let simmer for twenty minutes.

Etymology 2

From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

Noun

vint m

1. wind

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vent (“hero; man”). Compare Saterland Frisian Wäänt (“lad, boy”).

Noun

vint m (plural vintn, diminutive vintje)

1. man
2. husband