barre

See also: Barre, barré, and barrë

English

barre chord

Etymology

Borrowed from French barre.

Noun

barre (plural barres)

  1. (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
  2. (music) Short for barre chord.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French barre (bar, ingot).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /barə/, [ˈb̥ɑːɑ]

Noun

barre c (singular definite barren, plural indefinite barrer)

  1. ingot
  2. bar
  3. (gymnastics) parallel bars, uneven bars

Inflection

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French

Etymology

From Middle French barre, from Old French barre (beam, bar, gate, barrier), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Frankish *bara (bar, beam, barrier, fence), from Proto-Germanic *barō (beam, bar, barrier), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰAr- (log, board, plank). If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (bar, beam, one's cherished land), Middle Dutch bāre, baer (bar, barrier, rail), Old Frisian ber (attack, assault), Swedish bärling (a spoke), Norwegian berling (a small bar in a vehicle, rod), Latin forus (gangway, plank), Russian забо́р (zabór, fencing, paling, fence), Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros, piece of land, furrow, marker, beacon, lighthouse).

Alternative etymology derives Old French barre and Vulgar Latin *barra from a Celtic source related to Breton barri (branch, twig).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʁ/, /bɑʁ/
  • (file)

Noun

barre f (plural barres)

  1. bar, cake, ingot
  2. (typography) Clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark/
  3. (typography) Clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash
  4. (typography) Clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸
  5. (typography) Clipping of barre verticale: the pipe mark|
  6. (typography, improper) Clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash\
  7. (nautical) helm, tiller
  8. (heraldry) bend sinister

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Italian

Noun

barre f

  1. plural of barra

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Latin

Noun

barre

  1. vocative singular of barrus

Norman

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

barre f (plural barres)

  1. (Jersey, nautical) helm, tiller; reef
  2. (Jersey, cycling) crossbar

Synonyms


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Barre, Barren, from French barre and Latin barra

Noun

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrer, definite plural barrene)

  1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)
  2. a barre (e.g. for ballet training)

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Barren, from French barre and Latin barra

Noun

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrar, definite plural barrane)

  1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)

Derived terms

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Old French

Noun

barre f (oblique plural barres, nominative singular barre, nominative plural barres)

  1. bar (solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length)
    • 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
      Elle a l'us clos et fermet a la barre.
      She shut the door and closed it using the bar

Descendants


Portuguese

Verb

barre

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of barrar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of barrar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of barrar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of barrar

Spanish

Verb

barre

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of barrer.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of barrer.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of barrer.
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