barbare

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See also: barbaré

French

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʁ.baʁ/
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Adjective

barbare (plural barbares)

  1. barbarian (uncivilized)
  2. 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)
  3. Berber

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Interlingua

Adjective

barbare (comparative plus barbare, superlative le plus barbare)

  1. barbarous

Italian

Adjective

barbare f pl

  1. feminine plural of barbaro

Noun

barbare f pl

  1. feminine plural of barbaro

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Latin

Etymology

From barbarus (“foreign, barbarous”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

barbarē (comparative barbarius, superlative barbarissimē)

  1. In the manner of a foreigner.
  2. rudely, incorrectly
  3. roughly, cruelly

Related terms

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)

  1. 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)

  1. (Jersey) barbarian

Spanish

Verb

barbare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of barbar
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