"baroque" meaning in All languages combined

See baroque on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /bæˈɹɒk/ [UK], /bəˈɹoʊk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baroque.wav [Southern-England] Forms: baroquer [comparative], baroquest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɒk, -əʊk Etymology: Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|baroque}} French baroque, {{der|en|pt|barroco||irregular pearl}} Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”), {{cog|es|barrueco}} Spanish barrueco, {{cog|it|barocco}} Italian barocco, {{der|en|la|verrūca||wart}} Latin verrūca (“wart”) Head templates: {{en-adj|baroquer}} baroque (comparative baroquer, superlative baroquest)
  1. Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail. Translations (laden with detail): barroc (Catalan), barok (Danish), koristeellinen (Finnish), barokkinen (Finnish), barocco (Italian), barokk (Norwegian Bokmål), barokk (Norwegian Nynorsk), barroco (Portuguese), baročen (Slovene), barock (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-baroque-en-adj-nX77vXE8 Disambiguation of 'laden with detail': 81 2 2 9 2 4
  2. Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity. Translations (complex and beautiful): barokkinen (Finnish), barroco (Portuguese), baročen (Slovene)
    Sense id: en-baroque-en-adj-VVsw5MCa Disambiguation of 'complex and beautiful': 5 90 0 0 0 5
  3. Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque. Translations (grotesque): groteski (Finnish), barokkinen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-baroque-en-adj-YOg7xinl Disambiguation of 'grotesque': 26 2 63 3 5 2
  4. Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts. Translations (embellished): barokkinen (Finnish), barokowy (Polish), barroco (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-baroque-en-adj-eC8k9z4U Disambiguation of 'embellished': 13 5 6 65 3 9
  5. Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
    Sense id: en-baroque-en-adj-A6reBSqf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 2 24 28 38 3 2
  6. (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-baroque-en-adj-t--U9U2x
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: baroquely, baroqueness, baroque organ, baroque pearl, baroque piety, baroque pitch, baroque pop, earthquake baroque, neo-baroque, unbaroque

Noun [English]

IPA: /bæˈɹɒk/ [UK], /bəˈɹoʊk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baroque.wav [Southern-England] Forms: baroques [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒk, -əʊk Etymology: Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|baroque}} French baroque, {{der|en|pt|barroco||irregular pearl}} Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”), {{cog|es|barrueco}} Spanish barrueco, {{cog|it|barocco}} Italian barocco, {{der|en|la|verrūca||wart}} Latin verrūca (“wart”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} baroque (plural baroques)
  1. An ornate, detailed style.
    Sense id: en-baroque-en-noun-TuFfLuAm

Adjective [French]

IPA: /ba.ʁɔk/ Audio: Fr-baroque.ogg Forms: baroques [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French baroque, originally denoting a pearl of irregular shape, from Italian barocco, Spanish barrueco, or Portuguese barroco, all possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|baroque|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French baroque, {{inh+|fr|frm|baroque}} Inherited from Middle French baroque, {{der|fr|it|barocco}} Italian barocco, {{der|fr|es|barrueco}} Spanish barrueco, {{der|fr|pt|barroco}} Portuguese barroco, {{der|fr|la|verrūca||wart}} Latin verrūca (“wart”) Head templates: {{fr-adj}} baroque (plural baroques)
  1. baroque (all senses)
    Sense id: en-baroque-fr-adj-sms4ZLgB Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for baroque meaning in All languages combined (10.4kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baroquely"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baroqueness"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baroque organ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baroque pearl"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baroque piety"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baroque pitch"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baroque pop"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "earthquake baroque"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "neo-baroque"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "unbaroque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "baroque"
      },
      "expansion": "French baroque",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "barroco",
        "4": "",
        "5": "irregular pearl"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "barrueco"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish barrueco",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "barocco"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian barocco",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "verrūca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wart"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin verrūca (“wart”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baroquer",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baroquest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "baroquer"
      },
      "expansion": "baroque (comparative baroquer, superlative baroquest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail."
      ],
      "id": "en-baroque-en-adj-nX77vXE8",
      "links": [
        [
          "Ornate",
          "ornate"
        ],
        [
          "intricate",
          "intricate"
        ],
        [
          "laden",
          "laden"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "barroc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "barok"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "koristeellinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "barokkinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "barocco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "barokk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "barokk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "barroco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "baročen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 2 2 9 2 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "laden with detail",
          "word": "barock"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity."
      ],
      "id": "en-baroque-en-adj-VVsw5MCa",
      "links": [
        [
          "Complex",
          "complex"
        ],
        [
          "beautiful",
          "beautiful"
        ],
        [
          "irregularity",
          "irregularity"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 90 0 0 0 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "complex and beautiful",
          "word": "barokkinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 90 0 0 0 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "complex and beautiful",
          "word": "barroco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 90 0 0 0 5",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "complex and beautiful",
          "word": "baročen"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque."
      ],
      "id": "en-baroque-en-adj-YOg7xinl",
      "links": [
        [
          "garish",
          "garish"
        ],
        [
          "grotesque",
          "grotesque"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "26 2 63 3 5 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "grotesque",
          "word": "groteski"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 2 63 3 5 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "grotesque",
          "word": "barokkinen"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts."
      ],
      "id": "en-baroque-en-adj-eC8k9z4U",
      "links": [
        [
          "Embellished",
          "embellished"
        ],
        [
          "relief",
          "relief"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 6 65 3 9",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "embellished",
          "word": "barokkinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 6 65 3 9",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "embellished",
          "word": "barokowy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "13 5 6 65 3 9",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "embellished",
          "word": "barroco"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 2 24 28 38 3 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period."
      ],
      "id": "en-baroque-en-adj-A6reBSqf"
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "baroque bookkeeping in pursuit of tax dodges",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Overly and needlessly complicated."
      ],
      "id": "en-baroque-en-adj-t--U9U2x",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bæˈɹɒk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈɹoʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baroque.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/85/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/85/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Baroque"
  ],
  "word": "baroque"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "baroque"
      },
      "expansion": "French baroque",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "barroco",
        "4": "",
        "5": "irregular pearl"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "barrueco"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish barrueco",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "barocco"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian barocco",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "verrūca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wart"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin verrūca (“wart”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baroques",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "baroque (plural baroques)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Michael Jacobs, The Road to Santiago, page 103",
          "text": "[…] has semi-circular arches similar to those in Bourges, but pierced by unusual and irregular openings, and ringed with amusing portrait heads such as would not be found in the great Gothic Baroques of France.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ornate, detailed style."
      ],
      "id": "en-baroque-en-noun-TuFfLuAm"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bæˈɹɒk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈɹoʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baroque.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/85/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/85/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Baroque"
  ],
  "word": "baroque"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "baroque",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: baroque",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: baroque"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "barok",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: barok",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: barok"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "barroco",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: barroco",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: barroco"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "baroque",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French baroque",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "baroque"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French baroque",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "barocco"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian barocco",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "barrueco"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish barrueco",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "barroco"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese barroco",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "verrūca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wart"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin verrūca (“wart”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle French baroque, originally denoting a pearl of irregular shape, from Italian barocco, Spanish barrueco, or Portuguese barroco, all possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baroques",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "baroque (plural baroques)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "baroque (all senses)"
      ],
      "id": "en-baroque-fr-adj-sms4ZLgB",
      "links": [
        [
          "baroque",
          "baroque#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ba.ʁɔk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-baroque.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/Fr-baroque.ogg/Fr-baroque.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Fr-baroque.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "baroque"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Portuguese",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒk",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒk/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊk",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊk/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "baroquely"
    },
    {
      "word": "baroqueness"
    },
    {
      "word": "baroque organ"
    },
    {
      "word": "baroque pearl"
    },
    {
      "word": "baroque piety"
    },
    {
      "word": "baroque pitch"
    },
    {
      "word": "baroque pop"
    },
    {
      "word": "earthquake baroque"
    },
    {
      "word": "neo-baroque"
    },
    {
      "word": "unbaroque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "baroque"
      },
      "expansion": "French baroque",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "barroco",
        "4": "",
        "5": "irregular pearl"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "barrueco"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish barrueco",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "barocco"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian barocco",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "verrūca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wart"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin verrūca (“wart”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baroquer",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baroquest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "baroquer"
      },
      "expansion": "baroque (comparative baroquer, superlative baroquest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Ornate",
          "ornate"
        ],
        [
          "intricate",
          "intricate"
        ],
        [
          "laden",
          "laden"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Complex",
          "complex"
        ],
        [
          "beautiful",
          "beautiful"
        ],
        [
          "irregularity",
          "irregularity"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "garish",
          "garish"
        ],
        [
          "grotesque",
          "grotesque"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Embellished",
          "embellished"
        ],
        [
          "relief",
          "relief"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "baroque bookkeeping in pursuit of tax dodges",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Overly and needlessly complicated."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bæˈɹɒk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈɹoʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baroque.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/85/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/85/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "barroc"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "barok"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "koristeellinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "barokkinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "barocco"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "barokk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "barokk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "barroco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "baročen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "laden with detail",
      "word": "barock"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "complex and beautiful",
      "word": "barokkinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "complex and beautiful",
      "word": "barroco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "complex and beautiful",
      "word": "baročen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grotesque",
      "word": "groteski"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grotesque",
      "word": "barokkinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "embellished",
      "word": "barokkinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "embellished",
      "word": "barokowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "embellished",
      "word": "barroco"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Baroque"
  ],
  "word": "baroque"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Portuguese",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒk",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒk/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊk",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊk/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "baroque"
      },
      "expansion": "French baroque",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "barroco",
        "4": "",
        "5": "irregular pearl"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "barrueco"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish barrueco",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "barocco"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian barocco",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "verrūca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wart"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin verrūca (“wart”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baroques",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "baroque (plural baroques)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Michael Jacobs, The Road to Santiago, page 103",
          "text": "[…] has semi-circular arches similar to those in Bourges, but pierced by unusual and irregular openings, and ringed with amusing portrait heads such as would not be found in the great Gothic Baroques of France.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ornate, detailed style."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bæˈɹɒk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈɹoʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baroque.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/85/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/85/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baroque.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Baroque"
  ],
  "word": "baroque"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "baroque",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: baroque",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: baroque"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "barok",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: barok",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: barok"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "barroco",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: barroco",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: barroco"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "baroque",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French baroque",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "baroque"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French baroque",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "barocco"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian barocco",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "barrueco"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish barrueco",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "barroco"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese barroco",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "verrūca",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wart"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin verrūca (“wart”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle French baroque, originally denoting a pearl of irregular shape, from Italian barocco, Spanish barrueco, or Portuguese barroco, all possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baroques",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "baroque (plural baroques)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French adjectives",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French terms derived from Italian",
        "French terms derived from Latin",
        "French terms derived from Middle French",
        "French terms derived from Portuguese",
        "French terms derived from Spanish",
        "French terms inherited from Middle French",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "baroque (all senses)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baroque",
          "baroque#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ba.ʁɔk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-baroque.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/Fr-baroque.ogg/Fr-baroque.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Fr-baroque.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "baroque"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.