to drink
“Je rêve de boire à tes mots” — I dream of drinking to your words
Related: avoir toute honte bue, boire au goulot, boire comme un trou, boire du petit-lait, boire la tasse, boire le calice jusqu'à la lie, boire les paroles, chanson à boire, emboire, il y a à boire et à manger
Inherited from Middle French boire, from Old French boivre, beivre, from Latin bibere, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti. More details on conjugation The stressed past historic stems (1st singular, 3rd singular and 3rd plural) are from Vulgar Latin perfect stem *būb- (historic Old French bui), while the unstressed past historic (remaining past historic tenses), subjunctive imperfect, and past participle endings changed from -i- to -ū- (*bibūstus → Old French beüs, *bibū