The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβάρβαρος“foreign, strange”
- Latin · derived frombarbarus“foreigner, savage”
- English todaybarbarocracy
From Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”) + -cracy.
Words from the same roots
Latinbarbarus all →
barbarousBarbaro
Ancient Greekβάρβαρος all →
BarbaraBerberbarbarousBarabra
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.