barbare

From Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”).

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.baʁ/

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barbare (plural barbares)

1. barbarian (uncivilized)
2. horrible, awful (e.g., a type of music that one dislikes or a word or name that does not sound euphonious or is difficult to pronounce)
3. Berber

• “barbare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• barbera

barbare (comparative plus barbare, superlative le plus barbare)

1. barbarous

barbare f pl

1. feminine plural of barbaro

barbare f pl

1. feminine plural of barbaro

• barbera

From barbarus (“foreign, barbarous”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.ba.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.ba.re]

barbarē (comparative barbarius, superlative barbarissimē)

1. In the manner of a foreigner.
2. rudely, incorrectly
3. roughly, cruelly

• “barbare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “barbare”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• barbare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

barbare m or f (plural barbares)

1. barbaric

From Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), originally onomatopoeic, imitating foreign (non-Greek) speech.

barbare m (plural barbares)

1. (Jersey) barbarian

barbare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of barbar