English → Latin
“vintage” in Latin
vī̆ndēmiaa grape-gathering, vintagemagnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, logracilisslender, slim, thin; meager, scanty, lean; unadorned, simpleexiguusstrict, exact; paltry, inadequate, small, scanty, slight, littlevīndēmiolaA little yield of grapes or vintage.vindēmĭātōrĭusbelonging to the vintagemetōto reap, harvest; to cut, crop or snip off; to cut through, severcolligōto gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest; to m
The English word vintage itself goes back to Latin dē, through vindēmia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
vintage
vindemia. A good, poor vintage, vindemia bona, magna (Pall.), gracilis (Plin., Ep.), exigua (Col.); vindemiola (Cic.): of or belonging to a vintage, vindemiatorius (Varr.): to gather the vintage, vindemiam facere (Col.), metere (Plin.), colligere (Plin., Ep.): I have but a poor vintage, yet better than I had expected, vindemias graciles quidem, uberiores tamen quam exspectaveram colligo (Plin., 9, 20, 2).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for vintage?
- The usual Latin words for “vintage” are vī̆ndēmia, magnus, gracilis; also exiguus, vīndēmiola, vindēmĭātōrĭus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.