barrio
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish barrio, that from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).
Noun[edit]
barrio (plural barrios)
- (Venezuela, Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
- (Spanish America) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
- (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighbourhood.
- 2008, Resil B. Mojares, “Beast in the Fields”, in Gémino H. Abad, editor, Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino short stories in English: 1956 to 1972, page 413:
- In the barrio, they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.
- (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
- 1993, Diego Vigil, “The Established Gang”, in Scott Cummings; Daniel J. Monti, editors, Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States, page 98:
- After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.
- 1993, “Mr. Jones”, performed by Counting Crows:
- Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
barrio
References[edit]
- Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 211.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From barrus (“elephant”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
barriō (present infinitive barrīre, perfect active barrīvī, supine barrītum); fourth conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive, Late Latin) to make the sound of an elephant
Conjugation[edit]
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infinitives | barrītūrum esse | — | — | — | |||
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verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
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Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: barritar
References[edit]
- “barrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- barrio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “exterior”), referring to the outer, surrounding or less civilized or urbanized parts of a city, from classical Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”). Compare Portuguese bairro, Catalan barri.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
barrio m (plural barrios)
- neighbourhood
- Synonym: vecindario
- un barrio de clase media ― a middle-class neighborhood
- (Mexico) any neighbourhood of the original or ancient part of a city (usually excluding new growth after the 1930s, 40s or 50s, depending on the state or city)
- (Venezuela, Dominican Republic) slum
Usage notes[edit]
- In Mexico it has postal value and is obligatory (or else the colonia or fraccionamiento is), alongside the postal code.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “barrio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
barrio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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