英和和英

語源

Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).

発音

• IPA: /ˈʃɛɹi/
• 韻: -ɛɹi

名詞

sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)

1. (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

2. A variety of sherry.

   They produce several quality sherries.

3. A glass of sherry.

   Would you like a sherry?

等位語

• Madeira, madeira
• Marsala, marsala
• Porto, port, porto

派生語

派生した語

• → Czech: šery, sherry
• → German: Sherry
• → Finnish: sherry
• → French: sherry
• → Italian: sherry
• → Japanese: シェリー (sherī)
• → Polish: sherry
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: šeri

  Cyrillic script: шери

• → Yiddish: שערי (sheri)

参考

• amontillado