barbaric

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromβαρβαρικός“barbaric, savage, fierce”
2. Latin · derived frombarbaricus
3. Old French · derived frombarbarique“barbarous”
4. Middle English · inherited frombarbarik
5. English todaybarbaric

Inherited from Middle English barbarik, from Old French barbarique (“barbarous”), from Latin barbaricus, from Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós, “barbaric, savage, fierce”), from βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “barbarian”) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). See βάρβαρος (bárbaros) for more.