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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la vīnum, la dēmō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [wiːnˈdeː.mi.a], [wɪnˈdeː.mi.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [vinˈdɛː.mi.a]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''vī̆ndēmia''' ''f'' (genitive vī̆ndēmiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from ⟨*vīnodēmia⟩, from [[vīnum]] “wine” and [[dēmō]] “to take away”, with the suffix [[-ia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of the vintage as produce, and Cato, of the grape harvest.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the gathering of grapes, the vintage, as in Cato, Varro and Columella, in the plural in Pliny the Younger and Suetonius, and in Pliny the Elder the harvest of other crops.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) From Plautus it meant the year's produce of a vineyard, grapes or wine, and in Virgil grapes.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant grape gathering, vintage wine, and in the plural the vintage season.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''vendemmia'', French ''vendange'' and Spanish ''vendimia'', and Old French ''vendenge'' gave Anglo-French ''vintage'', whence [[en|vintage]] in the early 15th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a vintage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of the grape harvest.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 15th century – English ''vintage'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The grape harvest, [[m|en|vintage]]; any harvest.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A year's produce of grapes or wine.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[vīnum]]
+ * [[dēmō]]
+ * [[vindēmiātor]]
+ * [[en|vintage]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}