barrio

Borrowed from Spanish barrio, from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).

barrio (plural barrios)

1. A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
2. 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.
3. (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighborhood.
   • 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.

4. (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

• barrioh

From Spanish barrio.

barrio

1. A district of an altepetl.

• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 211.

From barrus (“elephant”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.ri.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.ri.o]

barriō (present infinitive barrīre, perfect active barrīvī, supine barrītum); fourth conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive, Late Latin) to make the sound of an elephant

• barrītus

• Italian: barrire
• Spanish: barritar

• “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.

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarjo/ [ˈba.rjo]

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• Rhymes: -arjo
• Syllabification: ba‧rrio

barrio m (plural barrios)

1. neighbourhood

   Synonym: vecindario

   un barrio de clase media ― a middle-class neighborhood

2. (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)
3. (Venezuela, Dominican Republic) slum

• In Mexico it has postal value and is obligatory (or else the colonia or fraccionamiento is), alongside the postal code.

• → Cebuano: baryo
• → Classical Nahuatl: barrio
• → English: barrio
• → Maranao: bariyo
• → Tagalog: baryo

• vecindad
• vecindario

• “barrio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• barrio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es