Cognac

See also: cognac

English

Etymology

From French Cognac, from Occitan Conhac, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius, Cominia + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum (from Latin -ācea).

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Cognac

2. A city and commune of Charente department, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; famous for cognac brandy.
3. Alternative letter-case form of cognac (brandy from Cognac).
   • 2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, pages 152-153:

     I confess that since Madame X left me […] Housekeeping Anarchy had reigned o’er my Putney domicile […], so my porcelain throne has long been my de facto office seat. A decent Cognac sits under the ball-gowned lavatory-roll cover, and I leave the door open so I can hear the kitchen radio.

Derived terms

• cognac

Translations

city

• Arabic: كُونْيَاك (kūnyāk)
• Bulgarian: Коня́к m (Konják)
• Catalan: Cognac m, Conyac m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 干邑 (gon¹ jap¹)

  Mandarin: 科尼亞克 / 科尼亚克 (Kēníyàkè), 干邑 (zh) (gānyì)

• Dutch: Cognac n
• French: Cognac (fr) m
• Greek: Κονιάκ (el) (Koniák)
• Japanese: コニャック (ja) (Konyakku)
• Korean: 코냐크 (Konyakeu)
• Occitan: Conhac m
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: Cougnat m
• Polish: Cognac (pl) m
• Ukrainian: Коньяк (Konʹjak)

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom. The gens Cominius is an Italic family name; see Cominia for further details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɲak/

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Proper noun

Cognac m

1. Cognac (a city and commune of Charente department, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; famous for cognac brandy)

Derived terms

• Cognaçais
• cognaçais
• cognac

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Cognac m (strong, genitive Cognacs, plural Cognacs)

1. alternative form of Kognak

Declension

Declension of Cognac [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Cognac	die	Cognacs
genitive	eines	des	Cognacs	der	Cognacs
dative	einem	dem	Cognac	den	Cognacs
accusative	einen	den	Cognac	die	Cognacs