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vinaceous (vai-NAY-shuhs) - adj., having the color of red wine.
Not quite what I expected, either -- thought it would be something more like "pertaining to or resembling wine" or possibly "vine-y." Taken in the 1670s from Late Latin vīnāceus, pertaining to wine (a-ha!), sometimes specifically the refuse from wine pressing, from Latin vīnum, wine, from PIE root *wéyh₁ōm.
---L.
Not quite what I expected, either -- thought it would be something more like "pertaining to or resembling wine" or possibly "vine-y." Taken in the 1670s from Late Latin vīnāceus, pertaining to wine (a-ha!), sometimes specifically the refuse from wine pressing, from Latin vīnum, wine, from PIE root *wéyh₁ōm.
---L.
