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barbarism
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b??(?)b???z(?)m/
- (General American) enPR: bär?b?-r?z'm, IPA(key): /?b??b????zm?/
Noun
barbarism (countable and uncountable, plural barbarisms)
- A barbaric act.
- These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.
- The condition of existing barbarically.
- A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.
- An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
- 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical Journal, 29, p. 94-101
- In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.
- 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical Journal, 29, p. 94-101
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French barbarisme
Noun
barbarism n (plural barbarisme)
- barbarism
Declension
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barbarian
English
Etymology
From Middle English barbarian, borrowed from Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”), from barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”), possibly onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to English blah blah). Cognate to Sanskrit ????? (barbara, “barbarian, non-Aryan, stammering, blockhead”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??(?).?b??.?i.?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /b??.?b???.i.?n/
- Rhymes: -???i?n
Adjective
barbarian (not comparable)
- Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
Synonyms
- barbaric
- barbarous
Translations
Noun
barbarian (plural barbarians)
- (historical) A non-Greek or a non-Roman.
- An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; often associated with fighting or other such shows of strength.
- (derogatory) Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
- A warrior, clad in fur or leather, associated with sword and sorcery stories.
- (derogatory) A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of M. Arnold to this entry?)
- A cruel, savage, brutal person; one without pity or humanity.
- 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother
- Thou fell barbarian.
- 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother
- (derogatory) A foreigner, especially with barbaric qualities as in the above definitions.
Synonyms
- (foreigner): alien, outlander, peregrine; see also Thesaurus:foreigner
Translations
Related terms
- barbarism
- barbarity
- barbarize
- rhubarb
- outlander
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