inebriated

What it means

1. Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.

   Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

   2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884

   Synonyms: drunk, intoxicated

In a sentence

Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s
2. Proto-Italic*ēɣʷrios
3. Latininēbriātus
4. Englishinebriated

From Latin inēbriātus, past participle of inēbriō (“intoxicate”) from in- + ēbrius (“drunk, intoxicated”) from Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrios, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s from root *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”); whence also ebrious and inebriate.