wine

Etymology 1

From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine.

noun

1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
   And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine. 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2
   Wine is usually stronger than beer.
   "Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.
2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.
   ...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...
3. (countable) A serving of wine.
   I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.
4. (uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.
   wine:

verb

1. (transitive) To entertain (someone) with wine.
   Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure; 1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159
2. (intransitive) To drink wine.
   I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing. 1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker

Etymology 2

A variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind.

noun

1. (Britain dialect) Wind.
   Vor voices rawze upon tha wine 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century
   Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens / When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine. 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire