Adjective: barbate
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more barbate |
| Superlative | most barbate |
Adjectives inflected like barbate
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *bʰardʰéh₂
3. Borrowed from Latin barbātus, from barba (“beard”) + -ātus (“-ate”). By surface analysis, barb + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See: Latin Adjectives '
barbātus'.