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vinify (VIN-uh-feye) - v.t., to turn (grapes or other fruit) into wine; v.i., to make wine, to turn into wine.
The commonality of all these senses being, of course, wine. The word is a recent one -- first attested in 1969, probably as a back-formation of vinification (which dates back to the 1870s) or formed anew from Latin roots vīni-, from vīnum, wine + -fy, verbal suffix meaning to make, from ficāre, to do/make.
---L.
The commonality of all these senses being, of course, wine. The word is a recent one -- first attested in 1969, probably as a back-formation of vinification (which dates back to the 1870s) or formed anew from Latin roots vīni-, from vīnum, wine + -fy, verbal suffix meaning to make, from ficāre, to do/make.
---L.
