cerveza
Asturian
Noun
cerveza f (plural cerveces)
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)
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
Descendants
Further reading
- “cerveza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- ast:Alcoholic beverages
- ast:Beer
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Gaulish
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish basic words
- es:Alcoholic beverages
- es:Beer