beber
Meaning
- (transitive) to drink (something)
- (intransitive) to consume alcoholic beverages
- (intransitive) to drink something
Frequency
Hyphenated as
be‧ber
Pronounced as (IPA)
/beˈbe(ʁ)/
Etymology
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.
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