barrir

Inherited from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō (“to make the sound of an elephant”), from Latin barrus (“elephant”).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁiʁ/

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barrir

1. to trumpet (to make the sound of an elephant's cry)

   Synonym: baréter

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• barrissement

• French Wiktionnaire

• “barrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Late Latin barrīre (“make the sound of an elephant's cry”), from barrus (“elephant”).

• Hyphenation: bar‧rir

barrir (third-person only, third-person singular present barre, third-person singular preterite barriu, past participle barrido)

1. (intransitive) to trumpet (of an elephant: to make its characteristic call)