What is the Latin word for wine?

The usual Latin words for “wine” are vīnum, tēmētum, vetustus; also vetulus, Catullus, recēns. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“wine” in Latin

vīnumwine; grapes; a grapevine tēmētumany intoxicating drink, especially strong wine or mead vetustusthat which has existed a long time; old, ancient, aged; established, lasting; after or in the manner of the ancients, ol vetulusold; little old, poor old Catullusa cognomen; a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry recēnsnew, recent, lately, newly, green, refreshed; fresh, lively; young, just whelped ScrībōniusGaius Scribonius Curio, a Roman statesman and orator; Scribonius Largus, a Roman physician novellusnew, young, fresh; novel, newly made

The English word wine itself goes back to Latin vīnum.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

wine

vinum: temetum (an antiquated and poetical name for wine). Old wine, vinum vetus (Cic.), vetustum (Plaut.), vetulum (Catullus): new wine, vinum novum (Cic.), novitium (Plin.), recens (Scribonius), novellum (Pall.): home-made wine (not foreign), vinum patrium or vernaculum: red, dark-colored wine, vinum rubrum, atrum, nigrum (Plin.): white, light-colored wine, vinum album (Plin.), candidum (Pall.): weak wine, wine that has no body, vinum dilutum (Cels.), infirmi saporis (Col.), imbecillum (Plin.), nullarum virium (Cels.): strong or full-bodied wine, vinum validum (Plin.), firmum (Col.): to drink much wine, largiore vino uti (Liv., Curt.): to be heated with wine, vino incalescere (Liv.); mero calescere (Hor.), incalescere (Curt.): given to wine, too fond of wine, in vinum pronior (Liv.); vinosus (Hor.): a wine flask or bottle, lagena: spirits of wine, *spiritus vini: the smell or flavor of wine, odor vini; odor vinosus: a wine glass, *scyphus vitreus: the wine trade, *negotium vinarium: lees of wine, faeces vini (Col.): a wine-cellar, cella vinaria (Cic.): a wine country, terra vinealis (Col.), vitifera (Plin.), vitfebus ferax: duty on wine, vectigal vino impositum; portorium vini (Cic., Font., 5, 9): a good judge of wine, judiciorum ac palati peritissimus (Plin., 14, 6, 8).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for wine?: The usual Latin words for “wine” are vīnum, tēmētum, vetustus; also vetulus, Catullus, recēns. 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.