EvianyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
in reference to mineral water, 1857, from the town of Évian-les-Bains on the shore of Lake Geneva in eastern France. The place is recorded from 8c. as Laquatico, from Latin aqua "water."
mineral (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
early 15c., "neither animal nor vegetable," from Old French mineral and directly from Medieval Latin mineralis (see mineral (n.)). Mineral water (early 15c.) originally was water found in nature with some mineral substance dissolved in it.
PerrieryoudaoicibaDictYouDict
proprietary name of a natural mineral water from southern France, first attested in English 1904.
seltzeryoudaoicibaDictYouDict
1741, from German Selterser (Wasser), a kind of mineral water, literally "of Selters," village near Weisbaden in Hesse-Nassau, where the mineral water is found.