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Which verb did the Romans use for making wine? I can imagine saying vinum facio/conficio/primo and maybe some other options as well. Different verbs might emphasize different aspects or steps of making wine. What verbs are possible in such use?
This question was inspired by an earlier one about the age of wine.
Cato Maior devotes a large subsection of De Agri Cultura to wine. You can read the entire text here, and as can be expected, he sticks to very simple verbs:
general:
actual wine making:
in recipes:
drinking !
Varro also wrote a De Agri Cultura treatise. I've looked whether he is a bit more creative in his choice of words, but he isn't. In fact, he hardly mentions how to press wine, he focuses rather on which types of vines to plant etc.
