different between bordeaux vs chopine

English

Noun

bordeaux (countable and uncountable, plural bordeaux or bordeauxes or bordeauxs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Bordeaux (“fungicide; wine”)
   • 1908, Annual Report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington:

     Twelve fungicides; bordeaux mixture, strong, weak and with soap, bordeaux powder, modified eau celeste and ammoniacal copper carbonate, alone and with soap. As between the stronger and weaker bordeauxs an intermediate was [considered].

   • 1909, Reports of the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire, volume 4, page 388:

     The bordeauxs seem to have been the most efficient fungicides, with the proprietary lime-sulfur mixtures a close second.

   • 1961, John Roberts McGrew, George Willis Still, Control of Grape Diseases and Insects in the Eastern United States:

     If these commercial materials are used to make a bordeaux or a copper-lime mixture for grape sprays, [...]

   • 2006, Gene W. Heck, Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism:

     For under Charlemagne, in particular, this industry greatly expanded, as the wine masters of Gaul began to produce their own high quality burgandies and bordeauxes in the very regions in which those modern wines now derive their names.

Danish

Etymology

From French Bordeaux (“a city and wine region in southwest France”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?rdo/, [b???d?o]

Noun

bordeaux c (singular definite bordeauxen or bordeaux'en, plural indefinite bordeauxer or bordeaux'er)

1. claret (color)
   1. (as an adjective) claret (of a deep purplish-red colour)
2. Bordeaux (wine)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (as an adjective): bordeauxfarvet, bordeauxrød, vinrød
• (wine): bordeauxvin

See also

• bordeaux on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• (reds) rød; blegrosa, blegrød, blodrød, bordeaux, bordeauxrød, cerise, ceriserød, cinnober, cinnoberrød, dybrød, gammelrosa, højrød, ildrød, karmin, karminrød, karmoisinrød, kirsebærrød, knaldrød, kobberrød, kochenille, kraprød, lakrød, lyserød, mørkerød, pink, postkasserød, purpur, purpurrød, rosenrød, rosa, rubinrød, ræverød, rødgrå, rødgul, rødgylden, rødlilla, rødorange, rødviolet, sartrosa, skarlagen, skarlagenrød, teglstensrød, vinrød ^{(Category: da:Reds)}

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French Bordeaux (“a city and wine region in southwest France”), bordeaux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?r?do?/
• Hyphenation: bor?deaux

Noun

bordeaux m (plural bordeauxs)

1. Bordeaux (SW French wine)

   Synonym: bordeauxwijn

2. claret (color)

   Synonyms: bordeauxkleur, bordeauxrood, wijnrood

3. (Suriname, slang, uncountable) a Dutch passport, Dutch citizenship; a Dutch citizen
4. certain maroon dyes
5. that red-brownish colour

Adjective

bordeaux (invariable, comparative meer bordeaux, superlative meest bordeaux)

1. having the deep purplish-red colour of claret wine

Synonyms

• bordeauxkleurig
• bordeauxrood
• wijnrood

Finnish

Etymology

From French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bordo?/, [?bo?rdo??]

Noun

bordeaux

1. Bordeaux (wine)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

bordeaux (invariable)

1. claret (colour)

Noun

bordeaux m (uncountable)

1. Bordeaux (wine)

Noun

bordeaux m

1. plural of bordeau

Italian

Adjective

bordeaux (invariable)

1. burgundy, maroon (colour)

Noun

bordeaux m (invariable)

1. burgundy, maroon (colour)
2. Bordeaux (wine)
3. (organic chemistry) Any of several azo dyes having this colour

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French chapin, from Old Spanish chapín, from chapa (“plate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t????pi?n/

Noun

chopine (plural chopines)

1. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, 1/3 of the volume of a standard bottle.
2. (historical) A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Quotations

• 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 364-365

  By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven

  than when I saw you last by the altitude of a chopine.

• 1922 : Ulysses by James Joyce, chapter 9

  He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine…

References

Anagrams

• Cophine, phocine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pin/

Noun

chopine f (plural chopines)

1. (France, obsolete) A French pre-metric measure of capacity equal to half a pinte that was equivalent to 0.476 liters. Under the monarchy the measure varied from region to region, with the Parisian chopine being equivalent to 0.465 liters. 1 pinte ("quart") = 2 chopines ("pints") = 4 demiards ("half-pints").
2. (France) a French metric chopine (or metric "pint") equal to 0.250 liters.
3. (Canada) a French Canadian term for an imperial pint, equal to one eighth of an Imperial gallon, 20 Imperial ounces, or 0.568 liters.
4. (France) an amount of wine equivalent to 0.25 liters.
5. a type of women's clog or overshoe; a chopine

Verb

chopine

1. first-person singular present indicative of chopiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of chopiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of chopiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of chopiner
5. second-person singular imperative of chopiner

Further reading

• “chopine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).