vino
[vee-noh]
- wine; specifically, red Italian wine, as chianti.
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Origin of vino
vino-
- variant of vini-.
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in vino veritas
[in wee-noh we-ri-tahs; English in vahy-noh ver-i-tas, -tahs, vee-noh]
- in wine there is truth.
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Examples from the Web for vino
Contemporary Examples
I found it beckoning, almost like a mirage, in the form of the Vino Volo wine bar.
“He is a hated man in Montalcino,” Franco Zillani, who has chronicled the case on his blog Vino al Vino told The Daily Beast.
Historical Examples
What a misleading maxim is that of the Romans, In vino veritas!
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of ProverbsR. F. Horton
There is a proverb which says In vino veritas, and talks of truth in wine.
The Sunset TrailAlfred Henry Lewis
In Italy the vino d'Asti is excellent, but this is still better.
A Russian ProprietorLyof N. Tolstoi
"The new motto of America should be 'In vino demi-tasse,'" my friend said, smiling.
NonsenseorshipG. G. Putnam and Others
In vino veritas, said Roman philosophy, and builded better than it knew.
A New AtmosphereGail Hamilton
vino
- an informal word for wine
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Word Origin
jocular use of Italian or Spanish vino
in vino veritas
- in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
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Word Origin and History for vino
n.
"inferior wine," 1919, colloquial, from the Italian and Spanish word for "wine," from Latin vinum (see vine).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
in vino veritas
[(in vee-noh ver-ee-tahs)]
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