cerevisia
Cerevisia is the Latin word for beer, a fermented beverage derived from cereals, most commonly barley. In classical Latin the term denoted beer in general and appears in sources discussing beverages and daily life; in medieval Latin it continued to be used in writings on nutrition and brewing. The word is the etymological ancestor of beer-related terms in several Romance languages, though modern forms vary widely.
Traditionally, cerevisia was produced by mashing milled grains with water and allowing natural fermentation to take
In later centuries, Latin texts continued to use cerevisia to refer to beer, and the term is
Cerevisia, therefore, stands as a linguistic and historical marker for beer in antiquity and the medieval period,