vintage English · revision 7046

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1425|origins=la vindemia}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English, from Anglo-French vintage, an alteration, influenced by vineter, [[vintner]], of late Middle English vendage, [[bor|fro|vendange|t=grape harvest, yield of a vineyard]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(Hoad 1986) from [[la|vindemia|t=a gathering of grapes]], from [[m|la|vinum|t=wine]] and [[m|la|demo|alt=dēmere|t=to take off]], from de, away, and emere, to take (see [[redeem]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard: probably before 1425 in Barnhart, the early 15th century in Etymonline, about 1450 in the OED.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The gathering of the grapes is from 1540, and the season for it from 1616.^(OED 1989) Wine of good quality, poetically, is from 1604.^(OED 1989) The age or year of a particular wine is from 1746.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) From ''a man of ancient vintage'' (1883), the date or period when someone was born or flourished, came the adjective ''of an earlier time'',^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) and the age or period of origin of anything from 1929.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) Of cars it is from 1928,^(Etymonline) and ''characteristic of the best period of someone's work'' by 1930.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1425 – the yield of a vineyard.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1540 – the grape harvest.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1746 – the year of a wine.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1883 – of an earlier time.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1928 – vintage cars.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1929 – the period of origin.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The year or place in which a [[wine]], especially a good one, was produced; the wine itself.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The grapes or wine produced in a particular season, or the harvesting of them.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The time when something was made or began.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of high quality and lasting value; classic.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Old-fashioned or from the past, but still valued: ''vintage clothing''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(British)'' Of a car, made between 1919 and 1930.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nonvintage]]

+ * [[unvintaged]]

+ * [[vintager]]

+ * [[vintage wine]]

+ * [[vintage year]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vintner]]

+ * [[wine]]

+ * [[vine]]

+ * [[redeem]]

+ * [[vinegar]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}