barrique

See also: bârrique

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

barrique (plural barriques)

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

French edit

Etymology edit

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.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ba.ʁik/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ik

Noun edit

barrique f (plural barriques)

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

Derived terms edit

barricade

Descendants edit

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

References edit

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

Further reading edit

“barrique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French barrique.

Noun edit

barrique f (invariable)

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

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

barrique

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

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=barrique&oldid=76934439"