Latin

Alternative forms

• cerevisia
• cervisia

Noun

cervesia f ‎(genitive cervesiae); first declension

1. Alternative form of cervisia ‎(“beer”)

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Catalan: cervesa
• Galician: cervexa
• Italian: cervogia
• Old French: cervoise
  • Middle French: cervoise
    • French: cervoise
• Portuguese: cerveja
• Spanish: cerveza

References

• cervesia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cervesia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cervesia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cervesia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin