Where does “beverage” come from?
Beverage comes from Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, from Old French bevrage, from the Old French suffix -age added to Latin bibere meaning to drink.
beverage (English): A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea,...
Definitions
- A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea,...
Ancestry of “beverage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | beverage | An beverage or beverages; Such a beverage used... |
| 2 | Old French | beverage | Alternative form of bevrage |
| 3 | Old French | beivre | Alternative form of boivre |
| 4 | Old French | boivre | to drink; a drink |
| 5 | Latin | bibere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | bibō | to drink |
| 7 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |