barbus

See also: Barbus

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baʁ.by/
Rhymes: -y

Adjective

barbus

masculine plural of barbu

Latin

Etymology

From barba (“beard”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.bʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.bus]

Noun

barbus m (genitive barbī); second declension

barbel

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	barbus	barbī
genitive	barbī	barbōrum
dative	barbō	barbīs
accusative	barbum	barbōs
ablative	barbō	barbīs
vocative	barbe	barbī

Descendants

Descendants

Catalan: barb
Italian: barbo
West Iberian
- Galician: barbo
- Portuguese: barbo
- Spanish: barbo
→ Finnish: barbi
→ German: Barbe
→ Swedish: barb
⇒ Late Latin: barbulus (diminutive)
- Vulgar Latin: *barbellus
  - Old French: barbel
    - French: barbeau
    - Walloon: bårbea
    - → English: barbel
    - → Middle Dutch: barbeel
      - Dutch: barbeel

References

“barbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
barbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.