cervesa

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cervēs(i)a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [sərˈbɛ.zə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [sərˈvə.zə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [seɾˈve.za]
  • Audio (Valencia):(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 Natural History (Pliny) (AD 77–79).

Pronunciation

Noun

cervēsa f (genitive cervēsae); first declension

  1. Celtic wheat-beer

Declension

First-declension noun.

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, cerbeça, servesa, seriusa, servisia, ceruisa, çervisa, seruisa
      • 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[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cerveza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume 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

Noun

cervesa f (plural cervesas)

  1. beer
    Synonym: bièrra

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

  • cerbeça, servesa, seriusa, servisia, ceruisa, çervisa, seruisa

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

    • cerveza”, in Vocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of Medieval Commerce] (in Spanish), University of Murcia, (Can we date this quote?)