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barba

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin barba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/
  • Syllabification: bar‧ba
  • Rhymes: -aɾba

Noun

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barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

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Asturian

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Etymology

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    From Latin barba.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞a]
    • Rhymes: -aɾba
    • Syllabification: bar‧ba

    Noun

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    barba f (plural barbes)

    1. chin
    2. beard
    3. baleen

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    • García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “barba”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
    • “barba”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

    Catalan

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    Etymology 1

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    Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-?
    Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂
    Proto-Italic *farðā
    Latin barba
    Catalan barba

      Inherited from Latin barba, from Proto-Italic *farðā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

      Noun

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      barba f (plural barbes)

      1. chin
        Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta
      2. beard
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      Etymology 2

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

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      barba

      1. inflection of barbar:
        1. third-person singular present indicative
        2. second-person singular imperative

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      Cimbrian

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from Venetan barba (“paternal uncle”), from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

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      barba m (plural barben)

      1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) uncle
        De barben zeint zobia béetare. ― Uncles are like fathers.

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      • 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

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      Alternative forms

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      Etymology

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      From Latin barba.

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      barba f (plural barbe)

      1. beard

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      • “barba” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

      Emilian

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      Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Alternative forms

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      Etymology

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      From Latin barba.

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      barba f (plural barbi)

      1. (Mirandola) beard

      Esperanto

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      Etymology

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      Esperanto barbo
      Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
      Proto-Italic *-ā
      Latin -ader.
      ▲
      Latin -a
      Italian -ader.
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      Latin -a
      Old Spanish -a
      Spanish -ader.
      Esperanto -a
      Esperanto barba

        From barbo (“beard”) + -a (adjectival suffix).

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        barba (accusative singular barban, plural barbaj, accusative plural barbajn)

        1. of or related to beards
        2. having a beard, beardy (of people)
          Synonym: barbhava
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        French

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        barba

        1. third-person singular past historic of barber

        Galician

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        Etymology

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          Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba, from Proto-Italic *farðā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂, possibly from *bʰers-.

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          • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾba/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞ɐ]
          • Rhymes: -aɾba
          • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

          Noun

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          barba f (plural barbas)

          1. beard
          2. chin
            Synonym: barbadela
          3. (ornithology) barb (of a feather)

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          Interlingua

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          Noun

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          barba (plural barbas)

          1. beard
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          Istriot

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          Etymology 1

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          From Medieval Latin barbās.

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          barba m

          1. alternative form of bara

          Etymology 2

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          Inherited from Latin barba.

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          barba f

          1. beard
          2. chin

          References

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          • Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, pages 93-94
          • Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 38

          Italian

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          Etymology 1

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            From Latin barba, from Proto-Italic *farðā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

            Noun

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            barba f (plural barbe, diminutive barbétta (“beard”) or barbettìna (“beard”); barbìna (“beard”) or (more common) barbìno m (“beard”); barbicèlla (“root”) or barbicìna (“root”) or barbolìna (“root”), augmentative barbóna (“beard”) or (more common) barbóne m (“beard”), pejorative barbàccia (“beard”), derogatory barbùccia (“beard”))

            1. beard
            2. (botany) root, rootlet
            3. (zoology) barb
            4. (colloquial) bore, drag, yawn (an event or action which is boring)
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            Etymology 2

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            From Medieval Latin barbās, from barba (“the beard”), from the fact that a beard represents a grown man.

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            barba m (plural barbi)

            1. (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle, protestant priest
              Synonym: zio
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            • → Greek: μπάρμπας (bármpas)
            • → Mòcheno: barba

            References

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            1. ^ barba in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

            Latin

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            Barba ― A beard

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            Etymology 1

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            Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-?
            Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂
            Proto-Italic *farðā
            Latin barba

              Inherited from Proto-Italic *farðā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”). Since PIE *bʰ normally became [f] at the start of a Latin word, the initial [b] calls for some explanation. It is generally attributed to long-distance regressive assimilation in voicing and/or manner of articulation (e.g. *farb- > barb-). Italian farfecchie (“moustache”) may have been borrowed from a cognate word in another Italic language. If a relationship with this Italian word is accepted, then the assimilation discussed above must have postdated the common Italic stage.

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              Katz (1998 and 2006:335–337) identifies one other potential example of this sound change, berber (found only in the Carmen Arvale; interpreted by Katz as meaning "firm", cognate to firmus, from *dʰer-), and proposes the sound law *fVrb- > bVrb-, noting it has no apparent counterexamples.[1] This sound law is also endorsed by Weiss 2018:439-440 (citing Katz 2006), with the same examples, although Weiss prefers to interpret berber as meaning 'at every door' and derive it from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”) via *dʰwer-dʰwer (citing Weiss 2017 and Ligorio 2012).[2] On the other hand, De Vaan 2008, citing Driessen 2001, considers this rule ad hoc.[3] For comparison, fiber from *bʰébʰrus (with the similar but not identical shape fVbr-) shows a lack of assimilation (Katz 2006:336).[1]

              Previously, Weiss 2009 suggested the alternative of deriving the */b-/ via long-distance aspirate dissimilation ("limited Latin Grassmann's Law") turning *bʰardʰeh₂ into *bardʰeh₂.[4]

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              barba f (genitive barbae); first declension

              1. beard (facial hair)
                Synonym: barbitium
                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.
                • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.366–367:
                  […] Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis,
                  Interea toto non setius aere ningit.
                  […] hoarfrost clings to their uncombed, shaggy beards while the whole sky keeps on sheding snow.
              2. (figuratively) wool, down on a plant
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              First-declension noun.

              singular plural
              nominative barba barbae
              genitive barbae barbārum
              dative barbae barbīs
              accusative barbam barbās
              ablative barbā barbīs
              vocative barba barbae
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              Etymology 2

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              A variant form of the Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

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              barba m (genitive barbae); first declension

              1. alternative form of barbās
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              First-declension noun.

              singular plural
              nominative barba barbae
              genitive barbae barbārum
              dative barbae barbīs
              accusative barbam barbās
              ablative barbā barbīs
              vocative barba barbae

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              1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Katz, Joshua T. (2006), “The "'Urbi et Orbi'-Rule" Revisted”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies, The, volume 34, number 3 & 4
              2. ^ Weiss, Michael (2018), “Limited Latin Grassmann's Law: Do We Need It?”, in Dieter Gunkel, Stephanie W. Jamison, Angelo O. Mercado and Kazuhiko Yoshida, editors, Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press: “Thus nothing stands in the way of positing a regular assimilation of *fVrb to *bVrb with one certain and one speculative example.”
              3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “berber”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 70
              4. ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009), Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 156

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              • “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, 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
              • “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
              • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “barba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 69

              Lombard

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              Akin to Italian barba, from Latin.

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              barba f

              1. beard

              Mòcheno

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              Etymology

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              From Italian barba, from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

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              barba m

              1. uncle
                Coordinate term: moa'm

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              Occitan

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              Etymology

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              From Latin barba.

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              barba f (plural barbas)

              1. beard

              Old Galician-Portuguese

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              Alternative forms

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                Inherited from Latin barba, from Proto-Italic *farðā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂, possibly from *bʰers-.

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                barba f (plural barbas)

                1. beard
                  Synonym: granhon

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                Piedmontese

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                Etymology

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                From Latin barba.

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                barba m

                1. uncle

                Portuguese

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                barba

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                  Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba, from Proto-Italic *farðā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂, possibly from *bʰers-.

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                  barba f (plural barbas)

                  1. beard

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                  Romanian

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                  barba f

                  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of barbă

                  Romansh

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                  Etymology

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                  From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰ-eh₂- (compare English beard). Compare meaning of "uncle" to Friulian barbe, Italian barba, Dalmatian buarba.

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                  barba f (plural barbas)

                  1. beard

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                  barba m (plural barbas)

                  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) uncle

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                  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) aug
                  • (Sutsilvan) oc, ô

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                  • (with regards to gender):
                    • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) onda
                    • (Vallader) anda
                    • (Puter, Vallader) tanta

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                  barba f (plural barbi)

                  1. alternative form of varva

                  Spanish

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                  Etymology 1

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                    Inherited from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farðā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”). Compare English barber.

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                    barba f (plural barbas)

                    1. beard
                    2. chin
                      Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

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                    barba m (plural barbas)

                    1. beardy, bearded man
                    2. (archaic) the part of an old man (in a play)
                    3. (archaic) the villain (of a play)
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                    Etymology 2

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                    Verb

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                    barba

                    1. inflection of barbar:
                      1. third-person singular present indicative
                      2. second-person singular imperative

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                    Sranan Tongo

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                    Etymology

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                    Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

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                    • IPA(key): /baɾba/, [ba̠ɾba̠], [bɑ̟ɾbɑ̟]

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                    barba

                    1. beard
                      • 2002, SIL, “Anansi nanga a ston san abi barba”, in Languages of Suriname‎[2], Sranan Tongo Library:
                        Wan dei Anansi ben koiri ini a busi. Dan di ai koiri a si wan sani di noiti a ben si bifo: wan ston di abi barba.
                        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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