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French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
barbare (plural barbares)
- barbarian (uncivilized)
- horrible, awful (e.g., a type of music that one dislikes or a word or name that does not sound euphonious or is difficult to pronounce)
- Berber
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Interlingua
Adjective
barbare (comparative plus barbare, superlative le plus barbare)
- barbarous
Italian
Adjective
barbare f pl
- feminine plural of barbaro
Noun
barbare f pl
- feminine plural of barbaro
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Latin
Etymology
From barbarus (“foreign, barbarous”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
barbarē (comparative barbarius, superlative barbarissimē)
- In the manner of a foreigner.
- rudely, incorrectly
- roughly, cruelly
References
- “barbare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “barbare”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- barbare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle French
Adjective
barbare m or f (plural barbares)
- barbaric
Norman
Etymology
From Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), originally onomatopoeic, imitating foreign (non-Greek) speech.
Noun
barbare m (plural barbares)
- (Jersey) barbarian
Spanish
Verb
barbare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of barbar