cognac

Etymology

French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom.

noun

1. 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.
   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. 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, page 265