cognac
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See also: Cognac
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cognac (countable and uncountable, plural cognacs)
- 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.
Hypernyms
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[edit]type of brandy
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[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cognac c (singular definite cognacen, plural indefinite cognacer)
Declension
[edit]Declension of cognac
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | cognac | cognacen | cognacer | cognacerne |
genitive | cognacs | cognacens | cognacers | cognacernes |
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)
- (a glass of) cognac
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: konyak
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Cognac.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cognac m (plural cognacs)
Descendants
[edit]- → Czech: koňak m
- → German: Kognak, Cognac (now more common)
- → Spanish: coñac m
- → Polish: koniak m
- → Russian: конья́к m (konʹják)
Further reading
[edit]- “cognac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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