| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| aquavit |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·qua·vit |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  ä kw -v t |
| NOUN: | A strong clear Scandinavian liquor distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seed. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian akvavit, from Medieval Latin aqua v tae, highly distilled spirits : Latin aqua, water; see aqua + Latin vtae, genitive of vta, life; see vital.
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