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Where does “Bari” come from?

Bari comes from Italian Bari, from Latin Barium, from Ancient Greek Βάριον, of unknown ultimate origin.

Ancestry of “Bari”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbaritoneThe male voice between tenor and bass; The...
2Italianbaritonobaritone; barytone
3Late Latinbarytonusbarytone
4Ancient Greekβαρύτονοςdeep-sounding; barytone; having its acute accent...
5Ancient Greekτόνοςrope, cord; chord; tone, note
6Proto-Hellenictónosrope, cord; tension
7Proto-Indo-Europeantónossomething stretched; chord, fiber, string
8Proto-Indo-Europeanten-to stretch, to extend
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