bibitor

Latin

Etymology

From bibō (“drink”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɪ.bɪ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbiː.bi.tor]

Noun

bibitor m (genitive bibitōris); third declension

1. a drinker, toper

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bibitor	bibitōrēs
genitive	bibitōris	bibitōrum
dative	bibitōrī	bibitōribus
accusative	bibitōrem	bibitōrēs
ablative	bibitōre	bibitōribus
vocative	bibitor	bibitōrēs

Related terms

• bibāx
• bibilis
• bibiō
• bibō
• bibōnius
• bibōsus
• bibulus

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: bibidore, bidore, bidori, vividore
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: biutor
  • Romanian: băutor
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: bevitore
  • Sicilian: vivituri
  • Venetan: bevidor
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: bevidôr
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • French: buveur
  • Southern:
    • Occitan: beveire
    • Old Catalan: *bevere
      • Catalan: beverri, ⇒? bevedor
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: bebedor
  • Portuguese: bebedor
  • Spanish: bebedor

References

• “bibitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bibitor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• bibitor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016