Etymology

beverage

bev·er·age
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Today it means: A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, often excluding water. Full definition →

Middle English beverage ← Old French beverage ← Latin bibō
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  1. Latin · derived frombibō
  2. Old French · derived frombeverage
  3. Middle English · inherited frombeverage
  4. English todaybeverage

From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishbeverage all →

beveridge

Latinbibō all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.