cerveza

Asturian

Noun

cerveza f (plural cerveces)

1. beer

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cervesia, variant of cervisia (compare Aragonese zerbeza, Catalan cervesa, Galician cervexa, Portuguese cerveja), perhaps related to cremor (“juice, thick broth”), but likely from Gaulish *kerβ ̃-, e-vocalism of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic *kormi (“beer”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₃m- (“soup”). Compare Welsh cwrw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeɾˈbeθa/ [θeɾˈβ̞e.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seɾˈbesa/ [seɾˈβ̞e.sa]
• Hyphenation: cer‧ve‧za

Noun

cerveza f (plural cervezas)

1. beer

Synonyms

• checha (Mexican, Río de la Plata, slang)
• chela (Mexican, Río de la Plata, slang)
• cheve (Mexican, slang)
• birra (Mexican, Río de la Plata, slang)
• fresca (slang)
• fría (Costa Rican, Mexican, slang)
• macha (Costa Rican slang)

Derived terms

• cervecería
• cervecero

Descendants

• → Cebuano: serbesa
• → Tagalog: serbesa

Further reading

• “cerveza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014