Vynour

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An archaic term for a person who makes or sells wine, a wine merchant or vintner in older English usage
2. A dealer in wine, or one who tends vines and produces wine, used in older English writing
3. An obsolete word for a vintner, meaning a seller of wine or a maker of it in earlier centuries

Etymology: A wine merchant in medieval England was a "vynour," a name that came from the trade itself. The word was borrowed from Anglo-French "vinour," which descends from Medieval Latin "vinetarius," a dealer in "vinum," the Latin for wine. Its English spelling shifted over the centuries, and "vintner," the form that survives, reflects the same Latin base. The trade's name also outlived the spelling that gave it. Medieval wine sellers were often known by their occupation, and the surnames Viner and Vyner descend from the same word. Many people who carry those names today have never heard the word itself, though it is the source of their family name.

Synonyms: vintner, winemaker