sherry
See also: Sherry
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)
- (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
- A variety of sherry.
- They produce several quality sherries.
- A glass of sherry.
- Would you like a sherry?
Coordinate terms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Czech: šery, sherry
- → German: Sherry
- → Finnish: sherry
- → French: sherry
- → Italian: sherry
- → Japanese: シェリー (sherī)
- → Polish: sherry
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Yiddish: שערי (sheri)
Translations
editfortified wine
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variety of sherry
glass of sherry
See also
editCzech
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English sherry.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsherry n (indeclinable)
Further reading
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsherry
Declension
editInflection of sherry (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sherry | sherryt | |
genitive | sherryn | sherryjen | |
partitive | sherryä | sherryjä | |
illative | sherryyn | sherryihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sherry | sherryt | |
accusative | nom. | sherry | sherryt |
gen. | sherryn | ||
genitive | sherryn | sherryjen | |
partitive | sherryä | sherryjä | |
inessive | sherryssä | sherryissä | |
elative | sherrystä | sherryistä | |
illative | sherryyn | sherryihin | |
adessive | sherryllä | sherryillä | |
ablative | sherryltä | sherryiltä | |
allative | sherrylle | sherryille | |
essive | sherrynä | sherryinä | |
translative | sherryksi | sherryiksi | |
abessive | sherryttä | sherryittä | |
instructive | — | sherryin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “sherry”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
editNoun
editsherry m (plural sherrys)
Further reading
edit- “sherry”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English sherry.
Noun
editsherry m (invariable)
Polish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English sherry.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsherry n (indeclinable)
- sherry (fortified wine)
Further reading
edit- sherry in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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