Where does “barbarious” come from?

barbarious (English) comes from English barbary, from Middle English barbarye, from Old French barbare, from Latin barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος, from Proto-Indo-European balb-.

barbarious (English): barbarous, barbaric

Definitions

  1. barbarous, barbaric

Ancestry of “barbarious”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishbarbarybarbarian; non-Christian
2Middle Englishbarbaryebarbarian, non-Christian
3Old Frenchbarbare—
4Latinbarbarusforeign; savage; uncivilized
5Ancient Greekβάρβαροςnon-Greek-speaking, foreign; barbaric, brutal,...
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbalb-—

Words derived from “barbarious”

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