barbarous
英 ['bɑːb(ə)rəs]
美 ['bɑrbərəs]
英語の語源
- barbarous
- barbarous: [15] Originally, a barbarous person was a ‘foreigner’, anyone who did not speak your own language. Greek bárbaros meant ‘foreign, ignorant’, and it has been speculated that its ultimate signification was ‘unable to speak intelligibly’ (the related Sanskrit barbaras meant ‘stammering’). English acquired the word from Latin barbarus, a modified Vulgar Latin version of which, *brabus, produced Italian bravo and hence, via French, English brave.
=> brave - barbarous (adj.)
- c. 1400, "uncivilized, uncultured, ignorant," from Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros (see barbarian). Meaning "not Greek or Latin" (of words or language) is from c. 1500; that of "savagely cruel" is from 1580s.
例文
- 1. He thought the poetry of Whitman barrous .
- ホイットマンの詩は下品だと思っている。
- 2.the barous treatment of these prisoners of war
- これらの捕虜に対する過酷な扱い
- 3.They were guilty of the most barous and inhuman atrocities.
- 彼らは最も野蛮で、最も人間的な残虐な犯罪を犯している。
- 4.It was barrous to treat prisoners in that manner.
- このように犯人を扱うのは、あまりにも残酷だ。
- 5.It is barous to call at 5 a.m.
- 早朝5時に人に電話するのは教養に欠ける行為である。
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