Noun: bárbaro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bárbaro |
| Singular f | bárbara |
| Plural m | bárbaros |
| Plural f | bárbaras |
Sample Sentences
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¿Galicia? ... ¿Ónd'stá? ¿Ónde vai a nosa fermosa e podente Galicia? ¿Ónde pára? ¿ónde? aquela casta d'héroes fartos qu'o mesmo tremaron as follas das súas coitelas diante das naceós veciñas, acoradas, escorrentadas, por os bárbaros e a mouramia (Galicia? Where are you? What have become of our beauty a strong Galicia? Where it is now? Where that lineage of lavish heroes who waved their blades before the neighbouring nations, frightened, driven away by the barbarians and the Moors?) [1859, J. Domínguez d'Esquerdo, Coroas e cadeas do fidalgo povo galicián:]
Nouns inflected like bárbaro
preguiceiro,
metafísico,
serbio,
entomólogo,
estreleiro,
cunqueiro,
becerro,
palestino,
granxeiro,
georgiano,
kiribatiano,
escandinavo,
chadiano,
tamborileiro,
antónimo,
búlgaro,
alcohólico,
milenario,
mauritano,
anglofóbico, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese barbaro, from Latin barbarus (“foreign, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), of onomatopoeic origin, mimicking the sound of foreign languages. Doublet of bravo, possibly. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
barbaro', Latin Nouns '
barbarus'.
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