barbarus

barbarus

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌿𐍃

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”) onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to “blah blah”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba.rus/, [ˈbärbärʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba.rus/, [ˈbärbärus]

barbarus (feminine barbara, neuter barbarum, adverb barbarē); first/second-declension adjective

1. foreign, strange
2. savage, hostile
3. barbaric, barbarous, uncivilized
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.539–540:

     “Quod genus hoc hominum? Quaeve hunc tam barbara mōrem
     permittit patria?”

     “What race of men [is] this? Or what country [is] so barbaric that it permits this custom?”

First/second-declension adjective.

barbarus m (genitive barbarī); second declension

1. a foreigner
2. a savage
3. an uncivilized man

Second-declension noun.

• “barbarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “barbarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• barbarus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• barbarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.