οίνος / OY-nos / wine
κρασί / kra-SEE / wine
Seemed appropriate to do something romantic for Valentine’s Day so I was thinking about last year when we here and got a jug of oinomelo gifted to us by the taverna we had spent three hours in. I went to Google Translate to ask it how to spell the Greek word for wine and it said …
KRASI
Both are technically the Greek word for wine. Oinos is the ancient Greek word for wine, and while it is still used, it mostly just turns up as parts of words, like oinomelo (honeyed wine) and oinopoios (winemaker). It’s also the root word of both the Latin vin / vino and the English word wine. Meanwhile, krasi is the modern word for wine, and it has its roots in an old Greek word that meant “mixed” because it was common for Greeks to mix their wine with water to dilute it.
Anyways, it’s Friday, gonna put my head on my pillow and dream about the krasì I’m gonna consume this weekend. (The non-diluted kind.)