cervesa

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cervēs(i)a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [sərˈbɛ.zə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [sərˈvə.zə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [seɾˈve.za]
  • (file)

Noun

cervesa f (plural cerveses)

  1. beer

Derived terms

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kurmi. First documented in Pliny.

information on variants

Cervēsa was by far the most common form in Classical Latin and is particularly well-represented in the Vindolanda tablets. In Late Latin it was marginalised in favour of cervēsia, cervisa, cervisia.[1] The variant vowel ⟨i⟩ for the second syllable seems to have been short, judging by the Romance outcomes, although the Italian cervigia would suggest an additional cervīsia if it is in fact native.[2] Cf. also the Old Spanish çervisa.

Pronunciation

Noun

cervēsa f (genitive cervēsae); first declension

  1. Celtic wheat-beer

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cervēsa cervēsae
Genitive cervēsae cervēsārum
Dative cervēsae cervēsīs
Accusative cervēsam cervēsās
Ablative cervēsā cervēsīs
Vocative cervēsa cervēsae

Coordinate terms

Descendants

(generally via the form cervēsia)

  • Italo-Romance:
    • >? Old Italian: cervigia
  • Padanian:
    • Friulian: cervese
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: (unattested?)
      • Galician: cervexa
      • Portuguese: cerveja (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: cervesa, çervisa
      • Spanish: cerveza (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:

References

  1. Nelson, Max. 2001. Beer in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Thesis. University of British Columbia. Page 56.
  2. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “cerveza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 56

Further reading

  • cervisia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cervīsia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Occitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cervēs(i)a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seɾˈbezo/
  • (file)

Noun

cervesa f (plural cervesas)

  1. beer
    Synonym: bièrra

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

  • çervisa

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cervēs(i)a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡seɾˈβeza/

Noun

cervesa f (plural cervesas)

  1. beer

Descendants

  • Spanish: cerveza (see there for further descendants)

References

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