vendimia

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vindēmia, from vīnum (“wine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βenˈdimja/

Noun

vendimia f (plural vendimias)

1. vintage
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 61v. col. 1:

     Todos / los iudios q̃ eran foydos por / todas tierras uinierõ agodolias / e eſtidierõ en la tra e cogierõ / ſus mieſſes eſus. Vendimias

     All the Jews that had been made to flee across the land came to Gedaliah and settled the land and harvested their grains and grapes for wine

Related terms

• vino

Descendants

• Spanish: vendimia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benˈdimja/ [bẽn̪ˈd̪i.mja]
• Rhymes: -imja
• Syllabification: ven‧di‧mia

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish vendimia, from Latin vindēmia (compare French vendange, Italian vendemmia), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off, remove”). Doublet of vintage.

Noun

vendimia f (plural vendimias)

1. vintage (yield of grapes during one season)

   Synonym: cosecha

Related terms

• vendimiador
• vino
• viña

Etymology 2

Verb

vendimia

1. inflection of vendimiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “vendimia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10