raisin

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman reysin (“dried sweet grape”), from Old French raisin (“grape”), from Vulgar Latin *racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Cognate with Persian رز‎ (raz, “vine”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪzn̩/, /ˈɹeɪzən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪzən

Noun

raisin (plural raisins)

1. A dried grape.

Verb

raisin (third-person singular simple present raisins, present participle raisining, simple past and past participle raisined)

1. (intransitive) Of grapes: to dry out; to become like raisins.
   • 2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir

     Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.

Anagrams

• Sirian

Etymology

From Old French raisin, from Vulgar Latin *racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.zɛ̃/

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Noun

raisin m (plural raisins)

1. grape
2. a size of paper (having such a watermark)
3. a bright red lipstick

Further reading

• “raisin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Alternative forms

• resin, resyn, reysyn
• raisine, raysine, reisine (feminine)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rajˈzĩn/

Noun

raisin m (oblique plural raisins, nominative singular raisins, nominative plural raisin)

1. grape
2. cluster or bunch of grapes
3. raisin (dried fruit)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (raisin, supplement)
• raisin on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub