barba
Aragonese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbas)
References[edit]
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “barba”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbes)
Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbes)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
barba
- third-person singular present indicative form of barbar
- second-person singular imperative form of barbar
Further reading[edit]
- “barba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “barba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “barba” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “barba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cimbrian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Venetian barba (“paternal uncle”), from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).
Noun[edit]
barba m (plural barben)
- (Sette Comuni, Luserna) uncle
- De barben zeint zobia béetare. ― Uncles are like fathers.
References[edit]
- 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[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbe)
References[edit]
- “barba” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Emilian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbi)
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From barbo (“beard”) + -a (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
barba (accusative singular barban, plural barbaj, accusative plural barbajn)
Related terms[edit]
- barbo (“beard”)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
barba
- third-person singular past historic of barber
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbas)
Further reading[edit]
- “barba” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba (plural barbas)
Related terms[edit]
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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, diminutive barbétta or barbettìna; barbìna or (more common) barbìno m; barbicèlla or barbicìna or barbolìna, augmentative barbóna or (more common) barbóne m, pejorative barbàccia, derogatory barbùccia)
- beard
- (botany) root, rootlet
- (zoology) barb
- (colloquial) bore, drag, yawn (an event or action which is boring)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- baffi m pl
Etymology 2[edit]
From the above term, from the fact that a beard represents a grown man.
Noun[edit]
barba m (plural barbi)
- (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle, protestant priest
- Synonym: zio
Descendants[edit]
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”). An initial */f-/ would have been expected, thus the initial /b-/ is presumed to be the outcome of assimilation with the following /-b-/.
Noun[edit]
barba f (genitive barbae); first declension
- 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.
- (figuratively) wool, down on a plant
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ||
Genitive | ||
Dative | ||
Accusative | ||
Ablative | ||
Vocative |
Synonyms[edit]
- (beard): barbitium
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Eastern Romance
- Franco-Provençal: bârba
- Gallo-Romance
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Occitano-Romance
- Oïl
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: balba, barba, balva
- Venetian: barba
- West Iberian
- → Proto-Brythonic: *barv
References[edit]
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 69
Etymology 2[edit]
A variant form of the Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).
Noun[edit]
barba m (genitive barbae); first declension
- Alternative form of barbās
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ||
Genitive | ||
Dative | ||
Accusative | ||
Ablative | ||
Vocative |
References[edit]
- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
- 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
Lombard[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Akin to Italian barba, from Latin.
Noun[edit]
barba f
Mòcheno[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian barba, from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).
Noun[edit]
barba m
References[edit]
- “barba” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Occitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbas)
Piedmontese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba m
Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese barba, barva, from Latin barba (“beard”), from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: bar‧ba
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbas)
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:barba.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Sranan Tongo: barba
See also[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba f
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)
Noun[edit]
barba m (plural barbas)
Synonyms[edit]
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (with regards to gender):
Sicilian[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbi)
- Alternative form of varva
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
barba f (plural barbas)
Noun[edit]
barba m (plural barbas)
Derived terms[edit]
- a barba regalada
- andar con la barba por el suelo
- barba a barba
- barba cerrada
- barba de cabra
- barba de chivo
- barba de tres días
- barba partida
- barbas de ballena
- barbería
- barbero
- barbijo
- barbilla
- barbón
- barbudo
- con toda la barba
- echar a las barbas
- hacer la barba
- mentir por la barba
- por barba
- subirse a las barbas
- tirarse de las barbas
Related terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
barba
- inflection of barbar:
Further reading[edit]
- “barba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Sranan Tongo[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese barba.
Noun[edit]
barba
- Aragonese terms inherited from Latin
- Aragonese terms derived from Latin
- Aragonese lemmas
- Aragonese nouns
- Aragonese feminine nouns
- Asturian terms inherited from Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- ast:Anatomy
- ast:Hair
- Catalan 2-syllable words
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Catalan terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan verb forms
- ca:Anatomy
- ca:Hair
- Cimbrian terms borrowed from Venetian
- Cimbrian terms derived from Venetian
- Cimbrian terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Cimbrian lemmas
- Cimbrian nouns
- Cimbrian masculine nouns
- Sette Comuni Cimbrian
- Luserna Cimbrian
- Cimbrian terms with usage examples
- cim:Male family members
- Corsican terms inherited from Latin
- Corsican terms derived from Latin
- Corsican lemmas
- Corsican nouns
- Corsican feminine nouns
- Emilian terms inherited from Latin
- Emilian terms derived from Latin
- Emilian lemmas
- Emilian nouns
- Emilian feminine nouns
- Mirandolese Emilian
- Esperanto terms suffixed with -a
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Esperanto terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Esperanto/arba
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto adjectives
- eo:Face
- eo:Hair
- French terms with audio links
- French non-lemma forms
- French verb forms
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Ornithology
- gl:Anatomy
- gl:Hair
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua nouns
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/arba
- Rhymes:Italian/arba/2 syllables
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Botany
- it:Zoology
- Italian colloquialisms
- Italian nouns with irregular gender
- Italian masculine nouns
- Northern Italian
- Switzerland Italian
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms with Ecclesiastical IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin terms with usage examples
- Latin masculine nouns in the first declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- la:Hair
- Lombard lemmas
- Lombard nouns
- Lombard feminine nouns
- Mòcheno terms borrowed from Italian
- Mòcheno terms derived from Italian
- Mòcheno terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Mòcheno lemmas
- Mòcheno nouns
- Mòcheno masculine nouns
- mhn:Male family members
- Occitan terms inherited from Latin
- Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Occitan terms with audio links
- Occitan lemmas
- Occitan nouns
- Occitan feminine nouns
- Occitan countable nouns
- oc:Hair
- Piedmontese terms inherited from Latin
- Piedmontese terms derived from Latin
- Piedmontese lemmas
- Piedmontese nouns
- Piedmontese masculine nouns
- pms:Family
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Hair
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian non-lemma forms
- Romanian noun forms
- Romansch terms inherited from Latin
- Romansch terms derived from Latin
- Romansch terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Romansch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Romansch lemmas
- Romansch nouns
- Romansch feminine nouns
- Romansch masculine nouns
- Rumantsch Grischun
- Surmiran Romansch
- Puter Romansch
- Vallader Romansch
- rm:Family
- rm:Hair
- Sicilian lemmas
- Sicilian nouns
- Sicilian feminine nouns
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Spanish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾba
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾba/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with irregular gender
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish terms with archaic senses
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- es:Anatomy
- es:Hair
- Sranan Tongo terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Sranan Tongo terms derived from Portuguese
- Sranan Tongo lemmas
- Sranan Tongo nouns
- srn:Hair