a. [ad. L. Surrentīnus, f. Surrentum, a maritime town of Campania, now Sorrento.] Belonging to Surrentum or the neighboring hills, anciently famous for an excellent wine.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XIV. vi. I. 414. That the Physicians had laid their heads togither, and agreed to give the Surrentine wine so great a name.
1833. Redding, Mod. Wines (1851), 8. Surrentine was a wine commended by the Emperor Caligula.
1845. Encycl. Metrop., XXV. 1271/1. The Falernian,… Gauran, and Surrentine hills … towered above the rich plains and cities below.
