barba

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See also: Barba, bárba, barbá, bàrba, barbà, barbã, and barbă

Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

References[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin barba.

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
  2. beard
  3. baleen

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
    Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta
  2. beard
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb[edit]

barba

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

Further reading[edit]

Cimbrian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

barba m (plural barben)

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

References[edit]

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

Emilian[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin barba.

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbi)

  1. (Mirandola) beard

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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

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

Synonyms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

French[edit]

Verb[edit]

barba

  1. third-person singular past historic of barber

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbas)

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

Further reading[edit]

Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

barba (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Related terms[edit]

Italian[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbe)

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

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From the above term, from the fact that a beard represents a grown man.

Noun[edit]

barba m (plural barbi)

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

Latin[edit]

barba (beard)

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From earlier *farba, with initial b- assimilated to -rb, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”). Compare also barbātus.

Noun[edit]

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
Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative barba barbae
Genitive barbae barbārum
Dative barbae barbīs
Accusative barbam barbās
Ablative barbā barbīs
Vocative barba barbae
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • De Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008, →ISBN, page 69

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

barba m (genitive barbae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of barbās
Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative barba barbae
Genitive barbae barbārum
Dative barbae barbīs
Accusative barbam barbās
Ablative barbā barbīs
Vocative barba barbae

References[edit]

  • barba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
  • barba in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
  • 2. BARBA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
    • to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
  • barba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898
  • barba in William Smith et al., editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin, 1890

Mòcheno[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

barba m

  1. uncle
    Coordinate term: moa'm

References[edit]

Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin barba.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Piedmontese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin barba.

Noun[edit]

barba m

  1. uncle

Portuguese[edit]

barba

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:barba.

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

See also[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

barba f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of barbă

Romansch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Noun[edit]

barba m (plural barbas)

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

Synonyms[edit]

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

Coordinate terms[edit]

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

Sicilian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin barba.

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbi)

  1. beard

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/, [ˈbaɾ.β̞a]

Noun[edit]

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

Noun[edit]

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)

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Sranan Tongo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

Noun[edit]

barba

  1. beard
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