ebrius

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s, from *h₁egʷʰ- (“to drink”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈeː.bri.us/, [ˈeːbriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.bri.us/, [ˈɛːbrius]

Adjective

ēbrius (feminine ēbria, neuter ēbrium); first/second-declension adjective

1. 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 [reveler]: at the hard threshold of his beautiful girlfriend
     he sings; his perfumed hair has a delicate garland.
     (The singer is celebrating the Floralia.)

2. (poetic) full

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ēbrius	ēbria	ēbrium		ēbriī	ēbriae	ēbria
genitive	ēbriī	ēbriae	ēbriī		ēbriōrum	ēbriārum	ēbriōrum
dative	ēbriō	ēbriae	ēbriō		ēbriīs
accusative	ēbrium	ēbriam	ēbrium		ēbriōs	ēbriās	ēbria
ablative	ēbriō	ēbriā	ēbriō		ēbriīs
vocative	ēbrie	ēbria	ēbrium		ēbriī	ēbriae	ēbria

Synonyms

• madidus
• mattus

Derived terms

• ēbriācus
• inēbriō
• sōbrius

Descendants

• Catalan: ebri
• English: ebrious
• French: ivre
• Italian: ebbro
• Old Occitan: ivre, yvre
• Occitan: ebri, ivri
• Portuguese: ébrio
• Spanish: ebrio

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)