vindemia

Latin

Etymology

From vīnum (“wine”) +‎ dēmō (“take away”) +‎ -ia (“noun-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation

Noun

vī̆ndēmia f (genitive vī̆ndēmiae); first declension

  1. a grape-gathering, vintage

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vī̆ndēmia vī̆ndēmiae
Genitive vī̆ndēmiae vī̆ndēmiārum
Dative vī̆ndēmiae vī̆ndēmiīs
Accusative vī̆ndēmiam vī̆ndēmiās
Ablative vī̆ndēmiā vī̆ndēmiīs
Vocative vī̆ndēmia vī̆ndēmiae

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: vendemmia
    • Neapolitan: vennegna
    • Sicilian: vinnigna, vignigna
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: vinnina (Logudorese)
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: vendeme
    • Ligurian: vendegna
    • Piedmontese: vendëmia, vëndëmia, vëndümia, vendegna
  • Gallo-Romance:[2]
    • Old Francoprovençal: vendeimi, vendemi, vendeima
      • Franco-Provençal: vendeimi
    • Old French: vendenge, vendeigne, venenge, venoinge
      • Bourguignon: venoinge
      • French: vendange
      • → Middle English: vendage (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: venema
    • Gascon: vrenha, verenha, veronha, vrunha, vendeunhha, vendonha, vesenha
    • Occitan: vendémia (all dialects)
      Auvergnat: vendenha, vendinha
      Limousin: vendenha
      Provençal: vendúmia
      Vivaro-Alpine: vendúmia, vendenha
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Borrowings:
    • → Breton: bendem, bondem
    • → Middle Irish: fínemain

References
  1. Ollie Sayeed (2017 January 1) “Osthoff’s Law in Latin”, in Indo-European Linguistics, volume 5, number 1, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 147–177
  2. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vĭndēmia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 14: U–Z, page 465

Further reading
  • “vindemia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vindemia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vindemia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • vindemia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “vindemia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “vindemia”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
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