The story
- Latin · derived fromvīnōsus“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”
- Middle English · inherited fromvinous
- English todayvinous
From Late Middle English vinous, vinose (“consisting of, containing, or made of wine”), from Latin vīnōsus (“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”), from vīnum (“wine”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.