cognac

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a fine brandy distilled from white wine in the Cognac region of western France

   He poured a small glass of cognac after dinner.

2. 2
   noun

   a serving or glass of cognac

   She ordered two cognacs and carried them back to the table.

From French cognac, named for Cognac in western France, the center of the brandy's legally defined production region. The place name comes through Occitan Conhac and Medieval Latin Comniacum, probably from the Roman personal name Cominius plus the Gallo-Roman place-name suffix -acum. The lower-case beverage name developed by association with its origin.

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