beber

From Latin bibere, present active infinitive of bibō (“I drink”).

beber

1. to drink

From Latin bibere, present active infinitive of bibō (“I drink”).

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

1. to drink

From Old Galician-Portuguese beber, bever, from Latin bibere, present active infinitive of bibō (“I 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

• “beber” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “beber” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “beber” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “beber” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “beber” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Javanese ꦧꦺꦧꦺꦂ (bébér, “spread, opened out”), from Old Javanese *wiwir (“to extend, to expand, to spread out”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛbɛr/
• Hyphenation: bè‧bèr
• Rhymes: -bɛr, -ɛr, -r

bèbèr

1. to spread out,
2. to open up

• “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) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.ber/, [ˈbɛbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.ber/, [ˈbɛːber]

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

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.

• 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

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

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014