barba

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
  2. beard
  3. baleen

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈbaɾ.bə/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈbar.bə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈbaɾ.ba/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan barba, from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
    Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta
  2. beard
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

barba

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

Further reading

Cimbrian

Noun

barba m (plural barben)

  1. uncle

References

  • “barba” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.

Emilian

Alternative forms

  • bärba (Parmigiano)
  • berba (Carpigiano)
  • bèrba (Bolognese)

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

  1. (Mirandolese) beard

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

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

Synonyms

  • (bearded): barbhava

French

Verb

barba

  1. third-person singular past historic of barber

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

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

Synonyms

  • (chin): barbadela

Interlingua

Noun

barba (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

barba f (plural barbe)

  1. beard
  2. (botany) root, rootlet
  3. (zoology) barb
  4. (colloquial) bore, drag, yawn

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

From the above term, from the fact that a beard represents a grown man.

Noun

barba m

  1. (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle

Synonyms

Latin

barba (beard)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From earlier *farba, with initial b- assimilated to -rb, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”). Compare also barbātus.

Noun

barba f (genitive barbae); first declension

  1. beard (facial hair)
    Barba non facit philosophum.
    A beard does not make a philosopher.
    Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video.
    I see a beard and cloak; a philosopher I don’t yet see.
  2. (figuratively) wool, down on a plant
Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative barba barbae
genitive barbae barbārum
dative barbae barbīs
accusative barbam barbās
ablative barbā barbīs
vocative barba barbae
Synonyms
  • (beard): barbitium
Derived terms
Descendants

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

barba m (genitive barbae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of barbās
Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative barba barbae
genitive barbae barbārum
dative barbae barbīs
accusative barbam barbās
ablative barbā barbīs
vocative barba barbae

References

  • 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba m

  1. uncle

Portuguese

barba

Etymology

From Old Portuguese barba, barva, from Latin barba (“beard”), from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbaɾ.βɐ/
  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:barba.

See also

Romansch

Etymology

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

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Noun

barba m (plural barbas)

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

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

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

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

  1. beard

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbarba/, [ˈbarβa]

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

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)

Derived terms

Further reading

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