baril

Etymology

From English barrel (“cask”)

Noun

baril

1. barrel, drum

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternate connection to Frankish *baril, *beril, or Gothic *𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (*bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-, *bʰrē- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁil/, /ba.ʁi/

Noun

baril m (plural barils)

1. barrel (volume used to measure petroleum and similar products)

Further reading

• “baril” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• blair

Noun

baril m (oblique plural bariz or barilz, nominative singular bariz or barilz, nominative plural baril)

1. small barrel

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (baril, supplement)

Noun

baríl

1. gun