hippocras

hippocras
/hip"euh kras'/, n.
an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
[1325-75; ME ypocras, appar. short for ypocras wyn (trans. of ML vinum hippocraticum; so called because clarified by filtering through a strainer named after Hippocrates); ME ypocras < OF: HIPPOCRATES < ML Hippocras, alter. of L Hippocrates, on model of words like civitas (nom.), civitatis (gen.)]

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