cerveza

Asturian

Etymology

At least in this form, borrowed from Spanish cerveza.

Noun

cerveza f (plural cervezas)

1. beer

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cerbeça (dated spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish cervesa (with consonant assimilation), from Latin cervēs(i)a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeɾˈbeθa/ [θeɾˈβ̞e.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seɾˈbesa/ [seɾˈβ̞e.sa]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -eθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: cer‧ve‧za

Noun

cerveza f (plural cervezas)

1. beer

   Synonyms: (Mexican, Río de la Plata, slang) checha, (Mexican, Río de la Plata, slang) chela, (Mexican, slang) cheve, (Mexican, Río de la Plata, slang) birra, (slang) fresca, (Cuban, slang) lagarto, (Costa Rican, Mexican, slang) fría, (Costa Rican slang) macha, (Ecuador) biela

Derived terms

• cervecería
• cervecero
• cerveza de raíz

 

Descendants

• → Aragonese: zerbeza
• → Asturian: cerveza
• → Basque: zerbeza
• → Bikol Central: serbesa
• → Cebuano: serbesa
• → Ilocano: serbesa
• → Quechua: sirwisa
• → Tagalog: serbesa

Further reading

• “cerveza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014