cognac

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Etymology

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From French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom.

Cognac

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cognac (countable and uncountable, plural cognacs)

  1. A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.
    Major manufacturers add a small proportion of caramel to color their cognacs.
    • 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 265:
      We’d have a script meeting for the next day’s shooting that lasted until two in the morning, and he’d be up again at six for a breakfast meeting. I survived on cognac. I have no idea how he did it.

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Danish

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Borrowed from French cognac.

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cognac c (singular definite cognacen, plural indefinite cognacer)

  1. brandy, cognac

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Dutch

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Borrowed from French cognac.

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  • IPA(key): /kɔnˈjɑk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: cog‧nac
  • Rhymes: -ɑk

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cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)

  1. (a glass of) cognac

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  • Indonesian: konyak

French

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From Cognac.

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cognac m (plural cognacs)

  1. cognac

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