beverage

English

Etymology

Old French bevrage, from boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Cognate to imbibe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

beverage (plural beverages)

1. A liquid to consume, usually excluding water; a drink. This may include tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks.

Usage notes

• More elevated than plainer drink. Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations.
• The word beverage is rarely used in British English.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:beverage

Translations

a drink

Amharic: መጠጥ (mäṭäṭ) Breton: boeson m., evaj m. Bulgarian: напитка (bg) f., питие (bg) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 飲料 (cmn), 饮料 (cmn) (yǐnliào) Croatian: napitak (hr) Czech: nápoj (cs) m. Dutch: drankje (nl) n., drank (nl) Esperanto: trinkaĵo (eo) Finnish: juoma (fi) French: boisson (fr) f., breuvage (fr) m. Georgian: სასმელი (ka) (sasmeli) German: Getränk (de) Greek: ποτό (el) (potó) n. Hebrew: משקה (he) (mashqe) m. Hungarian: ital (hu) Ido: drinkajo (io)

Interlingua: bibita (ia) Italian: bevanda (it) Japanese: 飲料 (いんりょう, inryō) Latvian: dzēriens m. Old Church Slavonic: пиво (pivo) n. Ottoman Turkish: meşrubat Persian: نوشابه (fa) (nushabe) Polish: napój (pl) m. Portuguese: bebida (pt) f. Romanian: băutură (ro) f. Russian: напиток (ru) (napitok) m. Slovak: nápoj (sk) m. Spanish: bebida (es) f., trago (es) m. Swahili: kinywaji (sw) Swedish: dryck (sv) c. Turkish: içecek (tr), meşrubat (tr) Vietnamese: nước giải khát (vi)

See also

• drink
• Wikipedia article on drinks and beverages

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Old French

Noun

beverage m. (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)

1. Alternative form of bevrage.