Barba

Barba f

1. a female given name

• Alain Stéphan, Tous les Prénoms bretons, 1996, Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, →ISBN, page 21

Barba

1. a surname

Barba f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Matronymics

• son of Barba: Barbuson
• daughter Barba: Barbudóttir

From barba (“beard”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.ba]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.ba]

Barba m sg (genitive Barbae); first declension

1. a Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Cassius Barba (a friend of Caesar, who gave Cicero guards for his villa, when Caesar paid him a visit in 44 BC)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Barba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2 Barba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “207/2”

Barba m (plural Barbasch)

1. barber