barbara

barbara

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English

Etymology

From the name Barbara; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/
  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba‧ra

Noun

barbara (plural barbaras)

  1. (logic) A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/
  • Rhymes: -arbara
  • Hyphenation: bàr‧ba‧ra

Noun

barbara f (plural barbare)

  1. female equivalent of barbaro

Adjective

barbara f sg

  1. feminine singular of barbaro

Anagrams

  • abbarra

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/, [ˈbärbärä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/, [ˈbärbärä]

Etymology 1

From barbarus: as a noun, a substantivisation of its feminine forms in elliptical use for fēmina barbara (the formation is novel to Latin; the Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros) is an adjective of two endings, whose masculine and feminine forms are isomorphic); as an adjective, regularly declined forms.

Noun

barbara f (genitive barbarae); first declension

  1. a wild, savage, cruel, barbarous, shameless, or immodest woman
    Synonym: inverēcunda
Declension

First-declension noun.

Adjective

barbara

  1. inflection of barbarus:
    1. nominative/vocative singular feminine
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural neuter

Adjective

barbarā

  1. ablative singular feminine of barbarus

References

  • barbăra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 1. BARBARA 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)
  • barbara” on page 225/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βαρβάρα (barbára).

Noun

barbara f (genitive barbarae); first declension

  1. (medicine) a kind of plaster
    Synonym: barbarum
Declension

First-declension noun.

References

  • barbăra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 207/2
  • barbara” on page 225/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Spanish

Verb

barbara

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of barbar

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