"barbarus" meaning in Latin

See barbarus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [ˈbar.ba.rʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈbar.ba.rus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”) onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to “blah blah”). Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:bor|grc:βάρβαρος<id:foreign>|id=foreign}}, {{der|la|grc|βάρβαρος||foreign, strange}} Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), {{onomatopoeic|la|title=onomatopoeic}} onomatopoeic Head templates: {{la-adj|barbarus|adv=barbarē}} barbarus (feminine barbara, neuter barbarum, adverb barbarē); first/second-declension adjective Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|barbarus}} Forms: barbara [feminine], barbarum [neuter], barbarē [adverb], no-table-tags [table-tags], barbarus [masculine, nominative, singular], barbara [feminine, nominative, singular], barbarum [neuter, nominative, singular], barbarī [masculine, nominative, plural], barbarae [feminine, nominative, plural], barbara [neuter, nominative, plural], barbarī [genitive, masculine, singular], barbarae [feminine, genitive, singular], barbarī [genitive, neuter, singular], barbarōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], barbarārum [feminine, genitive, plural], barbarōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], barbarō [dative, masculine, singular], barbarae [dative, feminine, singular], barbarō [dative, neuter, singular], barbarīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], barbarum [accusative, masculine, singular], barbaram [accusative, feminine, singular], barbarum [accusative, neuter, singular], barbarōs [accusative, masculine, plural], barbarās [accusative, feminine, plural], barbara [accusative, neuter, plural], barbarō [ablative, masculine, singular], barbarā [ablative, feminine, singular], barbarō [ablative, neuter, singular], barbarīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], barbare [masculine, singular, vocative], barbara [feminine, singular, vocative], barbarum [neuter, singular, vocative], barbarī [masculine, plural, vocative], barbarae [feminine, plural, vocative], barbara [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. foreign, strange Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-barbarus-la-adj-lrdlAsNW
  2. savage, hostile Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-barbarus-la-adj-Zy7xVPjV Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Latin onomatopoeias Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 4 25 16 12 25 18 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 2 14 6 23 30 25 Disambiguation of Latin onomatopoeias: 0 26 4 22 22 26
  3. barbaric, barbarous, uncivilized Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-barbarus-la-adj-HvqqnQgc Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 4 25 16 12 25 18
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: barbara, Barbara, barbaracuīnus, barbaracus Related terms: barbaricus, barbariēs, barbarismus, barbarīzō, barbarolexis

Noun

IPA: [ˈbar.ba.rʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈbar.ba.rus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”) onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to “blah blah”). Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:bor|grc:βάρβαρος<id:foreign>|id=foreign}}, {{der|la|grc|βάρβαρος||foreign, strange}} Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), {{onomatopoeic|la|title=onomatopoeic}} onomatopoeic Head templates: {{la-noun|barbarus<2>}} barbarus m (genitive barbarī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|barbarus<2>}} Forms: barbarī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], barbarus [nominative, singular], barbarī [nominative, plural], barbarī [genitive, singular], barbarōrum [genitive, plural], barbarō [dative, singular], barbarīs [dative, plural], barbarum [accusative, singular], barbarōs [accusative, plural], barbarō [ablative, singular], barbarīs [ablative, plural], barbare [singular, vocative], barbarī [plural, vocative]
  1. a foreigner Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-barbarus-la-noun-mxavBrP~ Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Latin onomatopoeias Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 4 25 16 12 25 18 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 2 14 6 23 30 25 Disambiguation of Latin onomatopoeias: 0 26 4 22 22 26
  2. a savage Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-barbarus-la-noun-9PMiBDVv Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Latin onomatopoeias Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 4 25 16 12 25 18 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 2 14 6 23 30 25 Disambiguation of Latin onomatopoeias: 0 26 4 22 22 26
  3. an uncivilized man Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-barbarus-la-noun-NvwpazeW Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Latin onomatopoeias Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 4 25 16 12 25 18 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 2 14 6 23 30 25 Disambiguation of Latin onomatopoeias: 0 26 4 22 22 26

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "barbara"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "barbaracuīnus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "barbaracus"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":bor",
        "3": "grc:βάρβαρος<id:foreign>",
        "id": "foreign"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "βάρβαρος",
        "4": "",
        "5": "foreign, strange"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "title": "onomatopoeic"
      },
      "expansion": "onomatopoeic",
      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”) onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to “blah blah”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "barbara",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarē",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbara",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbara",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbaram",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbara",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbare",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbara",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbara",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "barbarus",
        "adv": "barbarē"
      },
      "expansion": "barbarus (feminine barbara, neuter barbarum, adverb barbarē); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "barbarus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "barbaricus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "barbariēs"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "barbarismus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "barbarīzō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "barbarolexis"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "foreign, strange"
      ],
      "id": "en-barbarus-la-adj-lrdlAsNW",
      "links": [
        [
          "foreign",
          "foreign"
        ],
        [
          "strange",
          "strange"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 25 16 12 25 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 14 6 23 30 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 26 4 22 22 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin onomatopoeias",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "savage, hostile"
      ],
      "id": "en-barbarus-la-adj-Zy7xVPjV",
      "links": [
        [
          "savage",
          "savage"
        ],
        [
          "hostile",
          "hostile"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 25 16 12 25 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "“What race of men [is] this? Or what country [is] so barbaric that it permits this custom?”",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.539–540",
          "roman": "permittit patria?”",
          "text": "“Quod genus hoc hominum? Quaeve hunc tam barbara mōrem",
          "translation": "“What race of men [is] this? Or what country [is] so barbaric that it permits this custom?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "barbaric, barbarous, uncivilized"
      ],
      "id": "en-barbarus-la-adj-HvqqnQgc",
      "links": [
        [
          "barbaric",
          "barbaric"
        ],
        [
          "barbarous",
          "barbarous"
        ],
        [
          "uncivilized",
          "uncivilized"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈbar.ba.rʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈbar.ba.rus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "barbarus"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "bàrbar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "barbarian"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "barbare"
    },
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "Barbar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "barbari"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "barbaro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "barbaro"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Fala",
          "lang_code": "fax",
          "word": "bárbaru"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "word": "bárbaro"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "word": "bárbaro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "roa-opt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "barbaro"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Fala",
          "lang_code": "fax",
          "word": "bárbaru"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "word": "bárbaro"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "word": "bárbaro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "roa-opt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "barbari"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Fala",
          "lang_code": "fax",
          "word": "bárbaru"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "word": "bárbaro"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "word": "bárbaro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "roa-opt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "barberi"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Fala",
          "lang_code": "fax",
          "word": "bárbaru"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "word": "bárbaro"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "word": "bárbaro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "roa-opt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "berberi"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "barbarzyńca"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "bárbaro"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":bor",
        "3": "grc:βάρβαρος<id:foreign>",
        "id": "foreign"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "βάρβαρος",
        "4": "",
        "5": "foreign, strange"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "title": "onomatopoeic"
      },
      "expansion": "onomatopoeic",
      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”) onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to “blah blah”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "barbarī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarīs",
      "source": "declension",
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    }
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    {
      "form": "barbarōrum",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "barbarum",
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        "plural"
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    },
    {
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      "tags": [
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
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    {
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        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
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        "vocative"
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    {
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      "word": "barbariēs"
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      "word": "barbarismus"
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      "word": "barbarīzō"
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          "english": "“What race of men [is] this? Or what country [is] so barbaric that it permits this custom?”",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.539–540",
          "roman": "permittit patria?”",
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        }
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          "barbarous"
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        "declension-1",
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      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈbar.ba.rus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
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}

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        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a savage"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "savage",
          "savage"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "an uncivilized man"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "uncivilized",
          "uncivilized"
        ],
        [
          "man",
          "man"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈbar.ba.rʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈbar.ba.rus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "barbarus"
}

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