Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pharmacy, a solution of a medicinal substance in wine; also, wine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wine, -- chiefly used in Pharmacy in the name of solutions of some medicinal substance in wine; as: vina medicata, medicated wines; vinum opii, wine of opium.
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Examples
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Buglossalum, or borage wine before mentioned, which [4267] Mizaldus calls vinum mirabile, a wonderful wine, and
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Yet, in the other instances, we find the word postposed to other nouns such as vinum and esvi, the latter term probably being another kind of sacred offering.
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Various monstrances and cruets (note the As and Vs for aqua and vinum) from the Cathedral treasure:
Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum 2009
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Consequently, we're led to believe that Etruscan vinum, which was identical with the Latin, was simply borrowed.
The diffusion of the Italian terms for 'wine' from Etruscan 2009
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The remaining is a suffix -um which is fortunately attested a few times in what appear to be abstract, uncountable derivative nouns expressing concepts of mass or material as in meθlum 'people' (from *meθil 'group') and vinum 'wine' (from vina, also 'wine').
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Both mirrors suggest nothing more that vinum, mixed perhaps with some venena, was a great help in haruspicy.
More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world 2009
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Consequently, we're led to believe that Etruscan vinum, which was identical with the Latin, was simply borrowed.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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The remaining is a suffix -um which is fortunately attested a few times in what appear to be abstract, uncountable derivative nouns expressing concepts of mass or material as in meθlum 'people' (from *meθil 'group') and vinum 'wine' (from vina, also 'wine').
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Then would I enter keen with hunger, parched with thirst, (da mihi vinum quaeso, et merum sit,) and partake with appetite of whatever was set before us, according to our rule; feast or fast day, caritas or penitentia, was the same to me.
The Monastery 2008
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Around the top of each bottle is a Latin motto: "vinum, cantus, amor," or "wine, song, and love."
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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