different between emigre vs barbarian

English

Alternative forms

• émigré, emigré

Etymology

From French émigré.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m???e?/

Noun

emigre (plural emigres)

1. One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee.

2. An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another.

Anagrams

• regime, régime

Italian

Adjective

emigre

1. feminine plural of emigro

Anagrams

• emergi, regime

Portuguese

Verb

emigre

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of emigrar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of emigrar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of emigrar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of emigrar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?mi??e/, [e?mi.???e]

Verb

emigre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of emigrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of emigrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of emigrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of emigrar.

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)

1. Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.

Synonyms

• barbaric
• barbarous

Translations

Noun

barbarian (plural barbarians)

1. (historical) A non-Greek or a non-Roman.
2. An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; often associated with fighting or other such shows of strength.
3. (derogatory) Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
4. A warrior, clad in fur or leather, associated with sword and sorcery stories.
5. (derogatory) A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of M. Arnold to this entry?)
6. A cruel, savage, brutal person; one without pity or humanity.
   • 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother

     Thou fell barbarian.

7. (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