beber

From Latin bibere (“to drink”).

beber

1. to drink

From Latin bibere (“to drink”).

• IPA^(key): /beˈbeɾ/ [beˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: be‧ber

beber (first-person singular indicative present bebo, past participle bebíu)

1. to drink

• “beber” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

From Old Galician-Portuguese beber, bever, from Latin bibere (“to drink”).

• IPA^(key): [beˈβeɾ]

beber (first-person singular present bebo, first-person singular preterite bebín, past participle bebido)
beber (first-person singular present bebo, first-person singular preterite bebim or bebi, past participle bebido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to drink

   Synonym: trincar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “beber”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “beber”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “beber”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “beber” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “beber”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “beber”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “beber”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Javanese ꦧꦺꦧꦺꦂ (bébér, “spread, opened out”), from Old Javanese *wiwir (“to extend, to expand, to spread out”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛbɛr/ [ˈbɛ.bɛr]
• Rhymes: -ɛbɛr
• Syllabification: be‧ber

bèbèr

1. to spread out
2. to open up
3. (figurative) to expound; to explain, explicate

• “beber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowing from a Germanic or Celtic language, both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (whence Latin fiber).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɛ.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɛː.ber]

beber m (genitive bebrī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) beaver

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• castor (more common), fiber

• bebrīnus

• Old French: bievre, bevre, bevere, bever
  • Middle French: bievre
    • French: bièvre (archaic or dialectal)
• Friulian: bivar
• Italian: bevero
• Galician: befre
• Old Spanish: befre

• “beber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• buber (dialectal)

From Old Galician-Portuguese beber, bever (“to drink”), from Latin bibere (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti.

Cognate with Galician beber and Spanish beber, Catalan and Occitan beure, French boire, Italian bere and Romanian bea.

• Homophone: bebê (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: be‧ber

beber (first-person singular present bebo, first-person singular preterite bebi, past participle bebido)

1. (transitive) to drink (something)

   Ele está bebendo água. ― He is drinking water.

2. (intransitive) to consume alcoholic beverages

   João bebeu muito na festa. ― John drank a lot at the party.

3. (intransitive) to drink something

   Quero beber! ― I want to drink!

• bêbedo, bêbado
• bebedor
• embeber

• Kabuverdianu: bebe
  • Papiamentu: bebe, bebi
• Papiamentu: bebe, bebi
• → Saramaccan: bebé

(Papiamentu bebe, bebi came separately from Portuguese beber and Kabuverdianu bebe.)

• “beber”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “beber”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “beber” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “beber”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “beber”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “beber”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• baiver (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• beiber (Sursilvan)
• bever (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

From Latin bibō, bibere.

beber

1. (Sutsilvan) to drink

From Old Spanish bever, inherited from Latin bibere, bibō, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti. Cognate with Portuguese beber, Italian bere, French boire, Romanian bea. The modern spelling with intervocalic ⟨b⟩ replacing medieval ⟨v⟩ is due to Latin influence.

• IPA^(key): /beˈbeɾ/ [beˈβ̞eɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: be‧ber

beber (first-person singular present bebo, first-person singular preterite bebí, past participle bebido)

1. (transitive) to drink

   Synonym: tomar

   Voy a beberme un vaso de agua

   I am going to drink (myself) a glass of water

2. (transitive, figurative) to draw from (to be inspired by)

   Su narrativa bebe de lo personal

   Her narrative draws from personal (experience)

• “beber”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024