barbare
See also: barbaré
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baʁ.baʁ/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “barbare” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Latin
Etymology
From barbarus (“foreign, barbarous”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.re/, [ˈbar.ba.rɛ]
Adverb
barbarē (comparative barbarius, superlative barbarissimē)
- In the manner of a foreigner.
- rudely, incorrectly
- 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
Norman
Etymology
From Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), originally onomatopoeic, imitating foreign (non-Greek) speech.
Spanish
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