cerveja

Galician

Noun

cerveja f (plural cervejas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of cervexa

References

• “cerveja”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• çerveija, çerveja

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cervēsia, from Proto-Celtic *kurmi. Cognate with Old Spanish cervesa.

Noun

cerveja f (plural cervejas)

1. beer
   • 1470 September, Estêvão Eanes [copyist], anonymous translator, [caronicas dos miniſtꝛos geꝛaaes da oꝛdem dos fꝛaiꝛes menoꝛes] [Chronicles of the general ministers of the Order of Friars Minor], translation of Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum by Arnald of Sarrant (in Latin), page 12r, column 2:

     E depois que foꝛom emçarrados demtꝛo. o dt̃o monge truͦxelhes paã ⁊ çeꝛueija que bebeſem

     And after they were taken inside [the straw hut], the aforesaid monk brought them bread and beer to drink.

Descendants

• Galician: cervexa
• Portuguese: cerveja, cerveija (misspelling), ceva (colloquial, Brazil)
  • Kabuverdianu: serveja
  • → Tetum: serveja

References

• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “cerveja”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Portuguese

cerveja

Alternative forms

• cerveija (misspelling)
• ceva (colloquial, Brazil)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cerveja, from Latin cervēs(i)a. Compare Spanish cerveza.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁˈve.ʒɐ/ [seɦˈve.ʒɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁˈve.ʒɐ/ [seɦˈve.ʒɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /seɾˈve.ʒɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /seʁˈve.ʒɐ/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /seɻˈve.ʒɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁˈve.ʒa/ [seɦˈve.ʒa]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾˈvɐ(j).ʒɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾˈvɐ(j).ʒɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾˈbe.ʒɐ/ [sɨɾˈβe.ʒɐ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾˈve.ʒɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾˈve.ʒɐ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -eʒɐ
• Hyphenation: cer‧ve‧ja

Noun

cerveja f (plural cervejas)

1. beer

Derived terms

• barriga de cerveja / pança de cerveja
• cervejaria
• cervejeiro

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: serveja
• → Tetum: serveja

Further reading

• “cerveja”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cerveja” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cerveja”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “cerveja”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026