Where does “Barbados” come from?

Barbados is an English place name derived from Portuguese barbado, from Latin barbatus meaning bearded, ultimately from Latin barba meaning beard.

Barbados (English): To press-gang

Definitions

  1. To press-gang

Ancestry of “Barbados”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesebarbadosmasculine plural of barbado; bearded ones
2Portuguesebarbabeard
3Old Portuguesebarba—
4Latinbarbabeard; wool, down on a plant; Alternative form of...
5Latinfarba—
6Proto-Italicfarβābeard
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰardʰéh₂beard

Words derived from “Barbados”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰardʰéh₂ →