sauvignon
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauvignon (plural sauvignons)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown, possibly related to servagnin (attested 1538, Lausanne) servagnin, sarvinien (1597), savagnin (Jura), regional names for types of grape.
Possibly ultimately derived from the Gallo-Roman Latin name Salvinius (compare Salvinus, Salvinia, Salvius), before the velarization of the "-al" and with the substantive suffix -on.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauvignon m (plural sauvignons)
- sauvignon (grape variety and wine)
Further reading
[edit]- “sauvignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French sauvignon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauvignon m (plural sauvignons or sauvignon)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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- fr:Wines
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- es:Wines