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barbare

barbare is a Latin form of barbarus, meaning “foreign, barbarian; uncivilized, savage; (noun) a foreigner, barbarian”. It is the adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular masculine adjective or vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.12: … iliter pugnet oratio. quod quidem mihi videtur esse turpissimum. ut enim si grammaticum se professus quispiam barbare loquatur, aut si absurde canat is qui se haberi velit musicum, hoc turpior sit, quod in eo ipso peccet, cuius …

Martial, Epigrammata 11.96.3: Barbare, non debet, submoto cive, ministro

All forms of barbarus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.