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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/
  • Rhymes: -aɾba
  • Syllabification: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

References

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Pronunciation

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
  2. beard
  3. baleen

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
    Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta
  2. beard
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

barba

  1. inflection of barbar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Cimbrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian barba (“paternal uncle”), from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m (plural barben)

  1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) uncle
    De barben zeint zobia béetare. ― Uncles are like fathers.

References

  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
  • “barba” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Corsican

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbe)

  1. beard

References

  • “barba” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Emilian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

  1. (Mirandola) beard

Esperanto

Etymology

From barbo (“beard”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -arba
  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Adjective

barba (accusative singular barban, plural barbaj, accusative plural barbajn)

  1. of or related to beards
  2. having a beard, beardy (of people)
    Synonym: barbhava

Related terms

French

Pronunciation

Verb

barba

  1. third-person singular past historic of barber

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

Pronunciation

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonym: barbadela
  3. (ornithology) barb (of a feather)

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

barba (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Related terms

Italian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba/
  • Rhymes: -arba
  • Hyphenation: bàr‧ba

Etymology 1

From Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

barba f (plural barbe, diminutive barbétta or barbettìna; barbìna or (more common) barbìno m; barbicèlla or barbicìna or barbolìna, augmentative barbóna or (more common) barbóne m, pejorative barbàccia, derogatory barbùccia)

  1. beard
  2. (botany) root, rootlet
  3. (zoology) barb
  4. (colloquial) bore, drag, yawn (an event or action which is boring)
Derived terms
Related terms

See also

Etymology 2

From the above term, from the fact that a beard represents a grown man.

Noun

barba m (plural barbi)

  1. (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle, protestant priest
    Synonym: zio
Descendants
  • → Greek: μπάρμπας (bármpas)
  • → Mòcheno: barba

Latin

barba (beard)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”). Since PIE *bʰ normally became at the start of a Latin word, the initial calls for some explanation. It is generally attributed to long-distance regressive assimilation in voicing and/or manner of articulation (e.g. *farb- > barb-).

More information

Katz (1998 and 2006:335-337) identifies one other potential example of this sound change, berber (found only in the Carmen Arvale; interpreted by Katz as meaning "firm", cognate to firmus, from *dʰer-), and proposes the sound law *fVrb- > bVrb-, noting it has no apparent counterexamples. This sound law is also endorsed by Weiss 2018:439-440 (citing Katz 2006), with the same examples, although Weiss prefers to interpret berber as meaning 'at every door' and derive it from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”) via *dʰwer-dʰwer (citing Weiss 2017 and Ligorio 2012). On the other hand, De Vaan 2008, citing Driessen 2001, considers this rule ad hoc. For comparison, fiber from *bʰébʰrus (with the similar but not identical shape fVbr-) shows a lack of assimilation (Katz 2006:336).

Previously, Weiss 2009 suggested the alternative of deriving the */b-/ via long-distance aspirate dissimilation ("limited Latin Grassmann's Law") turning *bʰardʰeh₂ into *bardʰeh₂.

De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *farβā on the assumption that Italian farfecchie is borrowed from a cognate word in another Italic language. If this reconstruction is correct, then the assimilation discussed above must have postdated the common Italic stage.

Noun

barba f (genitive barbae); first declension

  1. beard (facial hair)
    Barba nōn facit philosophum.
    A beard does not make a philosopher.
    Videō barbam et pallium; philosophum nōndum videō.
    I see a beard and cloak; a philosopher I don’t yet see.
  2. (figuratively) wool, down on a plant
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative barba barbae
Genitive barbae barbārum
Dative barbae barbīs
Accusative barbam barbās
Ablative barbā barbīs
Vocative barba barbae
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

A variant form of the Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m (genitive barbae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of barbās
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative barba barbae
Genitive barbae barbārum
Dative barbae barbīs
Accusative barbam barbās
Ablative barbā barbīs
Vocative barba barbae

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Katz, Joshua T. (2006) “The "'Urbi et Orbi'-Rule" Revisted”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies, The, volume 34, number 3 & 4
  2. ^ Weiss, Michael (2018) “Limited Latin Grassmann's Law: Do We Need It?”, in Dieter Gunkel, Stephanie W. Jamison, Angelo O. Mercado and Kazuhiko Yoshida, editors, Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press: “Thus nothing stands in the way of positing a regular assimilation of *fVrb to *bVrb with one certain and one speculative example.”
  3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “berber”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 70
  4. ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 156

Further reading

  • “barba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “barba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • 2. BARBA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
  • “barba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “barba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “barba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 69

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian barba, from Latin.

Noun

barba f

  1. beard

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian barba, from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m

  1. uncle
    Coordinate term: moa'm

References

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Pronunciation

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba m

  1. uncle

Portuguese

barba

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese barba, barva, from Latin barba (“beard”), from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:barba.

Related terms

Descendants

See also

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

barba f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of barbă

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰ-eh₂- (compare English beard). Compare meaning of "uncle" to Friulian barbe, Italian barba, Dalmatian buarba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Noun

barba m (plural barbas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) uncle

Synonyms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) aug
  • (Sutsilvan) oc, ô

Coordinate terms

  • (with regards to gender):
    • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) onda
    • (Vallader) anda
    • (Puter, Vallader) tanta

Sicilian

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

  1. Alternative form of varva

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾba
  • Syllabification: bar‧ba

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

Noun

barba m (plural barbas)

  1. beardy, bearded man
  2. (archaic) the part of an old man (in a play)
  3. (archaic) the villain (of a play)
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

barba

  1. inflection of barbar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

Noun

barba

  1. beard
    • 2002, “Anansi nanga a ston san abi barba”, in SIL - Languages of Suriname‎:
      Wan dei Anansi ben koiri ini a busi. Dan di ai koiri a si wan sani di noiti a ben si bifo: wan ston di abi barba.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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