hippocras

English

Etymology

From Middle English ypocras, from Old French ipocras, ypocras (“Hippocrates”), after Medieval Latin vinum Hippocraticum (“Hippocrates's wine”) (because it was filtered through a Hippocratic sleeve).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpəʊkɹas/

Noun

hippocras (uncountable)

1. (historical) A cordial, made from a spiced wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, which are strained out by a cloth before the drink is consumed.
   • 1861 November 23, J. Hamilton Fyfe, “High Days in the Temple”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, number 126, New York, N.Y.: Leavitt, Trow, & Co., →OCLC, page 610, column 2:

     It is long since that disorderly potentate [the Lord of Misrule] went the way of the Dodo, and hippocras has become almost as mythical as ambrosia; but, once upon a time, they played a prominent part in legal education.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 641:

     Spiced wine, sweetened with sugar or honey, perhaps the original of the modern liqueur, was employed occasionally under the name of hippocras.

Related terms

• Hippocrates
• Hippocratic

Translations

cordial made from a spiced wine mixed with sugar and spices

• French: hypocras (fr) m
• German: Hypocras, Ypocras
• Italian: ippocrasso m, ipocrasso m
• Polish: hipokras
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: гипокра́с m (gipokrás)

Further reading

• hippocras on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• prophasic