† aiglentadj.

Etymology: Probably a misapprehension or misreading (perhaps compare -ent suffix) of aiglences musty wine (1565 in T. Cooper Thesaurus, glossed ‘wine alway mustie’), itself probably arising from a misreading of post-classical Latin aigleuces, former reading (e.g. in 16th-cent. editions of Pliny) for classical Latin aīgleucos always sweet (Pliny).According to Pliny, classical Latin aīgleucos is of Greek origin, but the word is apparently not attested in Greek. It is derived from ancient Greek ἀεί always (see aeipathy n.) + γλεῦκος sweet wine, sweetness < an ablaut variant (with e vocalism) of the stem of γλυκύς sweet (see glyco- comb. form). Compare the following isolated borrowing of post-classical Latin aigleuces into English:1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. 417 Now there is a kind of wine which the Greekes call Aigleuces, that is to say, alwaies sweet like new wine.