cognac
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See also: Cognac
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Derived terms
- cognac glass
Translations
type of brandy
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See also
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cognac c (singular definite cognacen, plural indefinite cognacer)
Declension
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | cognac | cognacen | cognacer | cognacerne |
| genitive | cognacs | cognacens | cognacers | cognacernes |
Declension of cognac
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)
- (a glass of) cognac
Derived terms
- cognacglas
Descendants
- → Indonesian: konyak
Etymology
From Cognac.
Pronunciation
Noun
cognac m (plural cognacs)
Descendants
Further reading
- “cognac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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