barrique

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See also: bârrique

English

Etymology

French barrique (“barrel, cask”). Doublet of breaker.

Noun

barrique (plural barriques)

  1. (historical) A barrel or cask of varying capacity, very roughly 200 litres.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan barrica, from Vulgar Latin *barrica (“barrel, cask”), from Gaulish *baril (“cask, barrel”); perhaps related to the source of Vulgar Latin *barra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.ʁik/
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  • Rhymes: -ik

Noun

barrique f (plural barriques)

  1. barrel, cask
    Synonym: tonneau
  2. (figuratively, derogatory) fatty, fatso

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → German: Barrique
  • → Italian: barrique
  • → Malagasy: barika
  • → Moore: barika
  • → Moore: birkɛ

References

  1. ^ “breaker”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French barrique.

Noun

barrique f (invariable)

  1. barrique (oak barrel of about 200 litre capacity, for storing wine)

Portuguese

Verb

barrique

  1. inflection of barricar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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