ebrius

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s, from *h₁egʷʰ- (“to drink”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

ēbrius (feminine ēbria, neuter ēbrium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. drunk, drunken, intoxicated
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ebrius
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.339–340:
      ēbrius ad dūrum fōrmōsae līmen amīcae
      cantat, habent ūnctae mollia serta comae
      The drunken [reveler]: at the hard threshold of his beautiful girlfriend
      he sings; his perfumed hair has a delicate garland.
      (The singer is celebrating the Floralia.)
  2. (poetic) full

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative ēbrius ēbria ēbrium ēbriī ēbriae ēbria
genitive ēbriī ēbriae ēbriī ēbriōrum ēbriārum ēbriōrum
dative ēbriō ēbriae ēbriō ēbriīs
accusative ēbrium ēbriam ēbrium ēbriōs ēbriās ēbria
ablative ēbriō ēbriā ēbriō ēbriīs
vocative ēbrie ēbria ēbrium ēbriī ēbriae ēbria

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: ebri
  • English: ebrious
  • French: ivre
  • Italian: ebbro
  • Old Occitan: ivre, yvre
  • Occitan: ebri, ivri
  • Portuguese: ébrio
  • Spanish: ebrio

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ēbrius”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 184-5

Further reading

  • “ēbrĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ebrius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ēbrĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 568/3.
  • “ēbrius” on page 583/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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