barrio
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish barrio, that from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).
Noun edit
barrio (plural barrios)
- A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America.
- A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
- (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighbourhood.
- 2008, Resil B. Mojares, “Beast in the Fields”, in Gémino H. Abad, editor, Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino short stories in English: 1956 to 1972, page 413:
- In the barrio, they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.
- (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
- 1993, Diego Vigil, “The Established Gang”, in Scott Cummings, Daniel J. Monti, editors, Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States, page 98:
- After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.
- 1993, “Mr. Jones”, performed by Counting Crows:
- Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
Classical Nahuatl edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
barrio
References edit
- Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 211.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From barrus (“elephant”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ri.oː/, [ˈbärːioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ri.o/, [ˈbärːio]
Verb edit
barriō (present infinitive barrīre, perfect active barrīvī, supine barrītum); fourth conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive, Late Latin) to make the sound of an elephant
Conjugation edit
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Spanish: barritar
References edit
- “barrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- barrio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “exterior”), referring to the outer, surrounding or less civilized or urbanized parts of a city, from classical Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”). Compare Portuguese bairro, Catalan barri.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
barrio m (plural barrios)
- neighbourhood
- Synonym: vecindario
- un barrio de clase media ― a middle-class neighborhood
- (Mexico) any neighbourhood of the original or ancient part of a city (usually excluding new growth after the 1930s, 40s or 50s, depending on the state or city)
- (Venezuela, Dominican Republic) slum
Usage notes edit
- In Mexico it has postal value and is obligatory (or else the colonia or fraccionamiento is), alongside the postal code.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “barrio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- barrio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es