different between barbarous vs carnal

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) barbarouse

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??(?)b???s/

Adjective

barbarous (comparative more barbarous, superlative most barbarous)

1. (said of language) Not classical or pure.
2. uncivilized, uncultured
   • 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt

     I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.

3. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

   I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs

   By the known rules of antient libertie,

   When strait a barbarous noise environs me

   Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673)

Derived terms

• barbarously
• barbarousness

Related terms

• barbarian
• barbaric

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin carn?lis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from car? (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??n?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?l

Adjective

carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)

1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
2. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

Derived terms

• carnally
• carnal knowledge

Related terms

• incarnate
• incarnation
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Translations

Further reading

• carnal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• carnal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin carn?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /k???nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /k?r?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka??nal/

Adjective

carnal (masculine and feminine plural carnals)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
2. consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)

Related terms

• carn
• carnalitat

Further reading

• “carnal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carnal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “carnal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carnal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kar?nal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

carnal

1. carnal

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese carnal, from Latin carn?lis (“of the flesh”), from car? (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /ka?.?naw/, /ka?.?naw/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka?.?naw/, /ka?.?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k??.?na?/
• Hyphenation: car?nal

Adjective

carnal m or f (plural carnais, comparable)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
2. (religion) carnal; earthly; worldly (concerned with human matters)

   Synonym: terreno

   Antonym: espiritual

3. consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)

   Synonym: consanguíneo

Related terms

• carnalidade
• carnalmente
• carnalizar
• carne

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin carn?lis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from car? (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??nal/, [ka??nal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: car?nal

Adjective

carnal (plural carnales)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)

   Synonyms: sexual, libidinoso

2. consanguineous, by blood (related through birth)

   Synonym: consanguíneo

Noun

carnal m (plural carnales, feminine carnala, feminine plural carnalas)

1. (Mexico) Ellipsis of hermano carnal (“brother by blood”); brother (in opposition to adopted or in-law)

Related terms

• carnalidad
• carne

Further reading

• “carnal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.