barbaro
Italian
Etymology
From Latin barbarus (“foreign, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), of onomatopoeic origin, mimicking the sound of foreign languages.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.ro/
- Rhymes: -arbaro
- Hyphenation: bàr‧ba‧ro
Adjective
barbaro (feminine barbara, masculine plural barbari, feminine plural barbare)
Derived terms
Noun
barbaro m (plural barbari, feminine barbara)
Further reading
- barbaro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
barbarō
- dative/ablative singular of barbarus
Old Galician-Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin barbarus, borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈβaɾβaɾo/
- Hyphenation: bar‧ba‧ro
Adjective
barbaro m (plural barbaros, feminine barbara, feminine plural barbaras)
Noun
barbaro m (plural barbaros, feminine barbara, feminine plural barbaras)
Descendants
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “b@rb@r@”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barbar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian barbaro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baɾˈbaɾo/ [baɾˈβ̞a.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -aɾo
- Syllabification: bar‧ba‧ro
Adjective
barbaro (feminine barbara, masculine plural barbaros, feminine plural barbaras)
- (Rioplatense, slang) sick, extreme (can be both positive and negative)