barbare

See also: barbaré

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.baʁ/

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Adjective

barbare (plural barbares)

1. barbarian (uncivilized)
2. horrible, awful (e.g., a type of music that one dislikes or a word or name that does not sound euphonious or is difficult to pronounce)
3. Berber

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• barbera

Interlingua

Adjective

barbare (comparative plus barbare, superlative le plus barbare)

1. barbarous

Italian

Adjective

barbare f pl

1. feminine plural of barbaro

Noun

barbare f pl

1. feminine plural of barbaro

Anagrams

• barbera

Latin

Etymology

From barbarus (“foreign, barbarous”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba.re/, [ˈbärbärɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba.re/, [ˈbärbäre]

Adverb

barbarē (comparative barbarius, superlative barbarissimē)

1. In the manner of a foreigner.
2. rudely, incorrectly
3. roughly, cruelly

Related terms

• barbaria
• barbaricus
• barbarismus
• barbarus

 

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.

Middle French

Adjective

barbare m or f (plural barbares)

1. barbaric

Norman

Etymology

From Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), originally onomatopoeic, imitating foreign (non-Greek) speech.

Noun

barbare m (plural barbares)

1. (Jersey) barbarian

Spanish

Verb

barbare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of barbar