liquor
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See also: liqueur
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid or liquid”); see liquid. Doublet of liqueur.
Pronunciation
Noun
liquor (countable and uncountable, plural liquors)
- (obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
- Thus Water also, or any other Liquor, included in a convenient vessel, by being warmed, manifestly expands it self with a very great violence […]
- 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:
- Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
- (obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
- A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
- Synonyms: stock, (American English) pot liquor, broth, bouillon
- (UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
- Synonyms: (British and Australasian English) spirits, hard liquor, hard drink, strong drink, aqua vitae, water of life
- In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
- A liquid in which something has been steeped.
Derived terms
- black liquor
- call liquor
- chocolate liquor
- corn liquor
- hard liquor
- hold one's liquor
- in liquor
- iron liquor
- Labarraque's liquor
- liquor amnii
- liquor commission
- liquor gauge
- liquor licence
- liquor lounge
- liquor of flints
- liquor sanguinis
- liquor silicum
- liquor store
- liquor thief
- liquor up
- malt liquor
- mother liquor
- red liquor
- sea liquor
- state liquor agency
- tan liquor
- tin liquor
- well liquor
- worse for liquor
Related terms
Translations
liquid obtained by cooking meat and/or vegetables
strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation
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Verb
liquor (third-person singular simple present liquors, present participle liquoring, simple past and past participle liquored)
- (intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
- (transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
- (obsolete, transitive) To grease.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
- Liquor fishermen's boots.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored
Derived terms
Translations
to cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess
to grease
References
- “liquor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Etymology 1
From liqueō (“I am liquid, fluid”) + -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlʲɪkʷɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]
Noun
liquor m (genitive liquōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | liquor | liquōrēs |
| Genitive | liquōris | liquōrum |
| Dative | liquōrī | liquōribus |
| Accusative | liquōrem | liquōrēs |
| Ablative | liquōre | liquōribus |
| Vocative | liquor | liquōrēs |
Related terms
Related terms
- liquefaciō
- liquefactiō
- liquēns
- liqueō
- liquēscō
- liquidē
- liquiditās
- liquidiusculus
- liquidō
- liquidus
Descendants
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈliː.kʷor/, [ˈlʲiːkʷɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]
Verb
līquor (present infinitive līquī); third conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stem
- (intransitive) to be fluid or liquid
- (intransitive) to flow
- (intransitive) to melt, dissolve
Conjugation
| Conjugation of līquor (third conjugation, no supine stem, deponent, no perfect stem) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | līquor | līqueris, līquere |
līquitur | līquimur | līquiminī | līquuntur |
| imperfect | līquēbar | līquēbāris, līquēbāre |
līquēbātur | līquēbāmur | līquēbāminī | līquēbantur | |
| future | līquar | līquēris, līquēre |
līquētur | līquēmur | līquēminī | līquentur | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | līquar | līquāris, līquāre |
līquātur | līquāmur | līquāminī | līquantur |
| imperfect | līquerer | līquerēris, līquerēre |
līquerētur | līquerēmur | līquerēminī | līquerentur | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | līquere | — | — | līquiminī | — |
| future | — | līquitor | līquitor | — | — | līquuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | līquī | — | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | līquēns | — | — | — | — | līquendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| līquendī | līquendō | līquendum | līquendō | — | — | ||
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlʲɪkʷɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]
Verb
liquor
References
- “līquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lĭquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “liquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- liquor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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