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barba

See also: Appendix:Variations of "barba"

Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin barba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/
  • Rhymes: -aɾba
  • Syllabification: bar‧ba

Noun

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barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin barba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/, [ˈbaɾ.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -aɾba
  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

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barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
  2. beard
  3. baleen

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

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barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
    Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta
  2. beard
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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barba

  1. inflection of barbar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Cimbrian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Venetan barba (“paternal uncle”), from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

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barba m (plural barben)

  1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) uncle
    De barben zeint zobia béetare. ― Uncles are like fathers.

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  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
  • “barba” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Corsican

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin barba.

Noun

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barba f (plural barbe)

  1. beard

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  • “barba” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Emilian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin barba.

Noun

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barba f (plural barbi)

  1. (Mirandola) beard

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From barbo (“beard”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbarba]
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  • Rhymes: -arba
  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Adjective

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barba (accusative singular barban, plural barbaj, accusative plural barbajn)

  1. of or related to beards
  2. having a beard, beardy (of people)
    Synonym: barbhava
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French

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Verb

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barba

  1. third-person singular past historic of barber

Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞ɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾba
  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

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barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonym: barbadela
  3. (ornithology) barb (of a feather)

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Interlingua

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Noun

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barba (plural barbas)

  1. beard
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Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

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barba f (plural barbe, diminutive barbétta (“beard”) or barbettìna (“beard”); barbìna (“beard”) or (more common) barbìno m (“beard”); barbicèlla (“root”) or barbicìna (“root”) or barbolìna (“root”), augmentative barbóna (“beard”) or (more common) barbóne m (“beard”), pejorative barbàccia (“beard”), derogatory barbùccia (“beard”))

  1. beard
  2. (botany) root, rootlet
  3. (zoology) barb
  4. (colloquial) bore, drag, yawn (an event or action which is boring)
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Etymology 2

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From Medieval Latin barbās, from barba (“the beard”), from the fact that a beard represents a grown man.

Noun

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barba m (plural barbi)

  1. (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle, protestant priest
    Synonym: zio
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  • → Greek: μπάρμπας (bármpas)
  • → Mòcheno: barba

References

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  1. ^ barba in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

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barba (beard)

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Etymology 1

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Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”). Since PIE *bʰ normally became [f] at the start of a Latin word, the initial [b] calls for some explanation. It is generally attributed to long-distance regressive assimilation in voicing and/or manner of articulation (e.g. *farb- > barb-).

More information

Katz (1998 and 2006:335-337) identifies one other potential example of this sound change, berber (found only in the Carmen Arvale; interpreted by Katz as meaning "firm", cognate to firmus, from *dʰer-), and proposes the sound law *fVrb- > bVrb-, noting it has no apparent counterexamples.[1] This sound law is also endorsed by Weiss 2018:439-440 (citing Katz 2006), with the same examples, although Weiss prefers to interpret berber as meaning 'at every door' and derive it from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”) via *dʰwer-dʰwer (citing Weiss 2017 and Ligorio 2012).[2] On the other hand, De Vaan 2008, citing Driessen 2001, considers this rule ad hoc.[3] For comparison, fiber from *bʰébʰrus (with the similar but not identical shape fVbr-) shows a lack of assimilation (Katz 2006:336).[1]

Previously, Weiss 2009 suggested the alternative of deriving the */b-/ via long-distance aspirate dissimilation ("limited Latin Grassmann's Law") turning *bʰardʰeh₂ into *bardʰeh₂.[4]

De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *farβā on the assumption that Italian farfecchie is borrowed from a cognate word in another Italic language. If this reconstruction is correct, then the assimilation discussed above must have postdated the common Italic stage.

Noun

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barba f (genitive barbae); first declension

  1. beard (facial hair)
    Barba nōn facit philosophum.
    A beard does not make a philosopher.
    Videō barbam et pallium; philosophum nōndum videō.
    I see a beard and cloak; a philosopher I don’t yet see.
  2. (figuratively) wool, down on a plant
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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative barba barbae
genitive barbae barbārum
dative barbae barbīs
accusative barbam barbās
ablative barbā barbīs
vocative barba barbae
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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Etymology 2

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A variant form of the Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

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barba m (genitive barbae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of barbās
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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative barba barbae
genitive barbae barbārum
dative barbae barbīs
accusative barbam barbās
ablative barbā barbīs
vocative barba barbae

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Katz, Joshua T. (2006) “The "'Urbi et Orbi'-Rule" Revisted”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies, The, volume 34, number 3 & 4
  2. ^ Weiss, Michael (2018) “Limited Latin Grassmann's Law: Do We Need It?”, in Dieter Gunkel, Stephanie W. Jamison, Angelo O. Mercado and Kazuhiko Yoshida, editors, Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press: “Thus nothing stands in the way of positing a regular assimilation of *fVrb to *bVrb with one certain and one speculative example.”
  3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “berber”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 70
  4. ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 156

Further reading

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  • “barba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “barba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • 2. BARBA 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)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
  • “barba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “barba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “barba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 69

Lombard

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Etymology

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Akin to Italian barba, from Latin.

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barba f

  1. beard

Mòcheno

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Etymology

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From Italian barba, from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

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barba m

  1. uncle
    Coordinate term: moa'm

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Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin barba.

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barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Piedmontese

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Etymology

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From Latin barba.

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barba m

  1. uncle

Portuguese

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barba

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From Old Galician-Portuguese barba, barva, from Latin barba (“beard”), from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

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  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

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barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Quotations

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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barba f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of barbă

Romansch

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Etymology

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From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰ-eh₂- (compare English beard). Compare meaning of "uncle" to Friulian barbe, Italian barba, Dalmatian buarba.

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barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

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barba m (plural barbas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) uncle

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  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) aug
  • (Sutsilvan) oc, ô

Coordinate terms

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  • (with regards to gender):
    • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) onda
    • (Vallader) anda
    • (Puter, Vallader) tanta

Sicilian

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Noun

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barba f (plural barbi)

  1. Alternative form of varva

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

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barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

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barba m (plural barbas)

  1. beardy, bearded man
  2. (archaic) the part of an old man (in a play)
  3. (archaic) the villain (of a play)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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barba

  1. inflection of barbar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/, [ˈba̠ɾba̠], [ˈbɑ̟ɾbɑ̟]

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barba

  1. beard
    • 2002, SIL, “Anansi nanga a ston san abi barba”, in Languages of Suriname‎[3], Sranan Tongo Library:
      Wan dei Anansi ben koiri ini a busi. Dan di ai koiri a si wan sani di noiti a ben si bifo: wan ston di abi barba.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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