inebriated

English

WOTD – 15 November 2006

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭ-nēʹbrē-ā-tĭd, IPA^(key): /ɪˈniː.bɹi.eɪ.tɪd/

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Adjective

inebriated (comparative more inebriated, superlative most inebriated)

1. Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.
   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     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.

Synonyms

• (behaving as though affected by alcohol): drunk, intoxicated
• See also Thesaurus:drunk

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁egʷʰ- (0 c, 19 e)

Translations

behaving as though affected by alcohol

• Bengali: মস্ত (bn) (mosto)
• Danish: beruset (da), fuld (da)
• Dutch: dronken (nl)
• Finnish: päihtynyt (fi)
• German: betrunken (de), beschwipst (de), angeheitert, alkoholisiert (de)
• Hungarian: részeg (hu), ittas (hu), kapatos (hu), becsípett (hu)
• Latin: ebrius m
• Ottoman Turkish: سرخوش (sarhoş), مخمور (mahmur)
• Persian: مست (fa) (mast)
• Plautdietsch: bedrunken, besopen
• Russian: нетре́звый (ru) m (netrézvyj)
• Sanskrit: मत्त (sa) m (matta), प्रमत्त (sa) (pramatta)
• Spanish: ebrio (es), borracho (es), escabiado (es), escabio (es) (Latin America, colloquial)
• Swedish: berusad (sv)

Verb

inebriated

1. simple past and past participle of inebriate