beber
Meaning
- (transitive) to drink
- (figuratively,transitive) to draw from (to be inspired by)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
be‧ber
Pronounced as (IPA)
/beˈbeɾ/
Etymology
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.
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