root beer

See also: rootbeer

English

A glass of root beer with foam.

Alternative forms

• rootbeer

Etymology

From root and beer. First recorded in 1841.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹut ˌbɪɹ/

Noun

root beer (countable and uncountable, plural root beers)

1. A beverage, most often a carbonated soft drink made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark, nutmeg, anise, and molasses, among other things.
2. A dark reddish-brown color, like the drink.
   • 2000, Leaves of Grass, by Mark Z. Danielewski, pg. 26

     I just keep staring at all the ink we have, that wild variety of color, everything from rootbeer, midnight blue and cochineal to mauve, light doe, lilac, south sea green, maize, even pelican black, all line up in these plastic caps...

   • 2006, Bows, Swamps, Whitetails. Tim Lewis. pg. 28.

     most of our bucks have antlers that are varying degrees of brown, from a deep rich root beer shade to walnut to even light amber.

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Translations

beverage with sarsaparilla root

• Catalan: cervesa d'arrels
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 根汁汽水 (gēnzhī qìshuǐ), 根啤 (gēnpí), 沙士 (shāshì)

• Esperanto: radikbiero
• Finnish: juuriolut (fi)
• French: racinette (fr) f
• Indonesian: rutbir
• Japanese: ルートビア (rūtobia)
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• Korean: 루트비어 (ruteubieo)
• Portuguese: root beer f, cerveja de raiz f, cerveja de raízes f
• Russian: корнево́е пи́во n (kornevóje pívo), рутбир (ru) m (rutbir)
• Slovene: zeliščno pivo n
• Spanish: cerveza de raíz f
• Thai: รูตเบียร์
• Turkish: kök birası
• Vietnamese: xá xị (vi)

Further reading

• root beer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rebooter, roboteer

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English root beer.

Noun

root beer f (plural s)

1. root beer (beverage made with sarsaparilla root)

Synonyms

• cerveja de raiz, cerveja de raízes