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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s, from *h₁egʷʰ- (“to drink”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
ēbrius (feminine ēbria, neuter ēbrium); first/second-declension adjective
- drunk, drunken, intoxicated
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ebrius
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.339–340:
- ēbrius ad dūrum fōrmōsae līmen amīcae
cantat, habent ūnctae mollia serta comae- The drunken : at the hard threshold of his beautiful girlfriend
he sings; his perfumed hair has a delicate garland.
(The singer is celebrating the Floralia.)
- (poetic) full
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ēbrius”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 184-5
Further reading
- “ēbrĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ebrius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ēbrĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 568/3.
- “ēbrius” on page 583/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)