cider
pronunciation
How to pronounce cider in British English:
UK [ˈsaɪdə(r)]
How to pronounce cider in American English:
US [ˈsaɪdɚ]
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- Noun:
- a beverage made from juice pressed from apples
Word Origin
- cider
- cider: [14] Despite its seeming roots in the appleproducing English countryside, cider is a very ancient word, which has come a long way to reach us. Hebrew shēkhār meant ‘any strong drink in general’. It crops up in several places in the Bible, and was adopted by Greek and Latin translators as, respectively, sīkéra and sīcera. The Latin form was borrowed into Old French, where it became sisdre and eventually sidre.By now it was being applied more specifically to drink made from apples, and it had that meaning when it was borrowed into English. However, its biblical associations were still sufficiently strong for it to retain its original meaning in certain contexts: for example, in 1382 John Wyclif translated Luke 1:15 (‘he shall drink neither wine nor strong drink’) as ‘he shall not drink wine and cider’.Its original form survived for a while, too, as sicar, which did not disappear from English until the 17th century.
- cider (n.)
- late 13c., from Old French cidre, cire "pear or apple cider" (12c., Modern French cidre), variant of cisdre, from Late Latin sicera, Vulgate rendition of Hebrew shekhar, a word used for any strong drink (translated in Old English as beor, taken untranslated in Septuagint Greek as sikera), related to Arabic sakar "strong drink," sakira "was drunk." Meaning gradually narrowed in English to mean exclusively "fermented drink made from apples," though this sense also was in Old French.
Example
- 1. There is a limit to cider 's effervescence .
- 2. Hot cider with lemon and honey for a bad cough ?
- 3. Snake bite , england . A cocktail made from cider and lager beer .
- 4. The euston tap has sister pubs in sheffield and york , and opened a cider bar on november 18th .
- 5. In the 18th century , it was common for farm workers to receive a percentage of their wages in cider .