bárbaro
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested since circa 1300. From Latin barbarus (“foreign, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), of onomatopoeic origin, mimicking the sound of foreign languages. Doublet of bravo, possibly.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bárbaro m (plural bárbaros)
- barbarian
- '1859, J. Domínguez d'Esquerdo, Coroas e cadeas do fidalgo povo galicián:
- ¿Galicia? ... ¿Ónd'stá? ¿Ónde vai a nosa fermosa e podente Galicia? ¿Ónde pára? ¿ónde? aquela casta d'héroes fartos qu'o mesmo tremaron as follas das súas coitelas diante das naceós veciñas, acoradas, escorrentadas, por os bárbaros e a mouramia
- Galicia? Where are you? What have become of our beauty a strong Galicia? Where it is now? Where that lineage of lavish heroes who waved their blades before the neighbouring nations, frightened, driven away by the barbarians and the Moors?
Adjective[edit]
bárbaro m (plural bárbaros)
References[edit]
- “barbaro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “barbar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “bárbaro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “bárbaro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “bárbaro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin barbarus (“foreign, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), of onomatopoeic origin, mimicking the sound of foreign languages. Doublet of brabo and berbere.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: bár‧ba‧ro
Adjective[edit]
bárbaro (feminine bárbara, masculine plural bárbaros, feminine plural bárbaras)
- barbarian; uncivilised
- Synonyms: selvagem, incivilizado
- wicked; evil; cruel
- (Brazil, slang) awesome; wicked; brilliant; excellent
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
bárbaro m (plural bárbaros, feminine bárbara, feminine plural bárbaras)
- (historical) barbarian (member of peoples considered uncivilised by the Romans and Greeks)
- barbarian (uncivilised person)
- barbarian (a cruel and violent person)
- Synonym: bruto
Further reading[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin barbarus (“foreign, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), of onomatopoeic origin, mimicking the sound of foreign languages.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
bárbaro (feminine bárbara, masculine plural bárbaros, feminine plural bárbaras)
Noun[edit]
bárbaro m (plural bárbaros, feminine bárbara, feminine plural bárbaras)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “bárbaro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese onomatopoeias
- Galician doublets
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician terms with quotations
- Galician informal terms
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese adjectives
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese slang
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with historical senses
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish onomatopoeias
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾbaɾo
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾbaɾo/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish colloquialisms
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns