Noun: bárbaro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bárbaro |
| Singular f | bárbara |
| Plural m | bárbaros |
| Plural f | bárbaras |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like bárbaro
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese barbaro, from Latin barbarus (“foreign, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), of onomatopoeic origin, mimicking the sound of foreign languages. Doublet of berbere and, possibly, of bravo /brabo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
barbaro', Latin Nouns '
barbarus'.
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