vindemia

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iːnˈdeː.mi.a/, [u̯iːn̪ˈd̪eːmiä] or IPA^(key): /u̯inˈdeː.mi.a/, [u̯ɪn̪ˈd̪eːmiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vinˈde.mi.a/, [vin̪ˈd̪ɛːmiä]

Noun

vī̆ndēmia f (genitive vī̆ndēmiae); first declension

1. a grape-gathering, vintage

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vī̆ndēmia	vī̆ndēmiae
genitive	vī̆ndēmiae	vī̆ndēmiārum
dative	vī̆ndēmiae	vī̆ndēmiīs
accusative	vī̆ndēmiam	vī̆ndēmiās
ablative	vī̆ndēmiā	vī̆ndēmiīs
vocative	vī̆ndēmia	vī̆ndēmiae

Derived terms

• vī̆ndēmiō

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:
  • Old Francoprovençal: vendeimi, vendemi, vendeima
    • Franco-Provençal: vendeimi
  • Old French: vendenge, vendeigne, venenge, venoinge
    • Bourguignon: venoinge
    • Champenois: venainge
    • French: vendange
    • → Middle English: vendage (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: venema
    • Catalan: verema
  • 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:
  • Galician: vendima, vindima
  • Portuguese: vindima
  • Spanish: vendimia
• Borrowings:
  • → Breton: bendem, bondem
  • → Middle Irish: fínemain
    • Irish: fíniúin, fíneamhain (superseded)

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] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011