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barbarian

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"Uncivilized warrior"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbɛə.ɹi.ən/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aaabbinrrStarts with BEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. without civilizing influences

Word origin

From Middle English barbarian, borrowed from Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, foreigner”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”), from barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”), possibly onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to English blah blah). Cognate to Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian, non-Aryan, stammering, blockhead”).

Used in a sentence

  • Shall a noble writer, and an inspired noble writer, be called a solecist, and barbarian, for giving a new turn to a word so agreeable to the analogy and genius of the Greek tongue?
  • Thou fell barbarian.

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