liquor

See also: liqueur

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid or liquid”); see liquid.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɪk.ə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɪk.ɚ/
  • Homophone: licker

Noun

liquor (countable and uncountable, plural liquors)

  1. (obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
      Thus Water also, or any other Liquor, included in a convenient vessel, by being warmed, manifestly expands it self with a very great violence […].
  2. (obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
  3. A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
  4. (chiefly US) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
  5. In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.

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Verb

liquor (third-person singular simple present liquors, present participle liquoring, simple past and past participle liquored)

  1. (intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
  2. (transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To grease.
    • Shakespeare
      Liquor fishermen's boots.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for liquor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

References

  • liquor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • liquor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Latin

Etymology 1

From liqueō (“I am liquid, fluid”)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlɪ.kʷɔr]

Noun

liquor m (genitive liquōris); third declension

  1. fluidity, liquidity
  2. a liquid, fluid
Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative liquor liquōrēs
genitive liquōris liquōrum
dative liquōrī liquōribus
accusative liquōrem liquōrēs
ablative liquōre liquōribus
vocative liquor liquōrēs
Descendants

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.kʷor/, [ˈliː.kʷɔr]

Verb

līquor (present infinitive līquī); third conjugation, deponent, no perfect

  1. (intransitive) to be fluid or liquid
  2. (intransitive) to flow
  3. (intransitive) to melt, dissolve
Conjugation
   Conjugation of liquor (third conjugation, deponent, defective)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present līquor līqueris, līquere līquitur līquimur līquiminī līquuntur
imperfect līquēbar līquēbāris, līquēbāre līquēbātur līquēbāmur līquēbāminī līquēbantur
future līquar līquēris, līquēre līquētur līquēmur līquēminī līquentur
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present līquar līquāris, līquāre līquātur līquāmur līquāminī līquantur
imperfect līquerer līquerēris, līquerēre līquerētur līquerēmur līquerēminī līquerentur
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — līquere — — līquiminī —
future — līquitor līquitor — — līquuntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives līquī — — — — —
participles līquēns — — — — līquendus
verbal nouns gerund supine
nominative genitive dative/ablative accusative accusative ablative
līquere līquendī līquendō līquendum — —

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlɪ.kʷɔr]

Verb

liquor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of liquō

References

  • līquor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lĭquor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • liquor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • liquor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • liquor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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