The story
- Latin · derived fromvindēmia“a gathering of grapes, vintage”
- Old French · derived fromvendage
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromvendenge
- Middle English · inherited fromvendage
- English todayvintage
From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).
Words from the same roots
Latinvindēmia all →
Vendémiaire
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.