# liquor
## English
### Alternative forms

* liquour (obsolete)

### 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. Doublet of liqueur.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈlɪk.ə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈlɪk.ɚ/
* Homophone: licker
* Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

### Noun

liquor (countable and uncountable, plural liquors)
* (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 […]
** 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
* (obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
* A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
    Synonyms: stock, (American English) pot liquor, broth, bouillon
* (UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
* (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
    Synonyms: (British and Australasian English) spirits, hard liquor, hard drink, strong drink, aqua vitae, water of life
** 1879, Chas. McArmor, The New Handbook of Vienna […] ‎, 2nd edition, Otto Maass, page 106:Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors.
* 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.
* A liquid in which something has been steeped.

#### Derived terms

* black liquor
* call liquor
* chocolate liquor
* corn liquor
* hard liquor
* hold one's liquor
* in liquor
* iron liquor
* Labarraque's liquor
* liquor amnii
* liquor commission
* liquor gauge
* liquor licence
* liquor lounge
* liquor of flints
* liquor sanguinis
* liquor silicum
* liquor store
* liquor thief
* liquor up
* malt liquor
* mother liquor
* red liquor
* sea liquor
* state liquor agency
* tan liquor
* tin liquor
* well liquor
* worse for liquor

#### Related terms

* liqueur
* liquid
* liquidate
* liquidation
* liquidator
* liquidity
* liquidizer

#### Translations

* It has been requested that this entry be merged with spirits.

### Verb

liquor (third-person singular simple present liquors, present participle liquoring, simple past and past participle liquored)
* (intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
* (transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
* (obsolete, transitive) To grease.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:Liquor fishermen's boots.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored

#### Derived terms

* liquored up

#### Translations
### References

* “liquor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From liqueō (“I am liquid, fluid”) +‎ -or.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlʲɪkʷɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]

#### Noun

liquor m (genitive liquōris); third declension
* fluidity, liquidity
* liquid, fluid

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Related terms

* liquefaciō
* liquefactiō
* liquēns
* liqueō
* liquēscō
* liquidē
* liquiditās
* liquidiusculus
* liquidō
* liquidus

##### Descendants

* Catalan: licor
* French: liqueur
* → Romanian: licoare
* Italian: liquore
* Occitan: liquor
* Russian: ликёр (likjór)
* Sicilian: licori m
* Spanish: licor m

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈliː.kʷor/, [ˈlʲiːkʷɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]

#### Verb

līquor (present infinitive līquī); third conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems
* (intransitive) to be fluid or liquid
* (intransitive) to flow
* (intransitive) to melt, dissolve

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlʲɪkʷɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]

#### Verb

liquor
* 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 […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.