The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβάρβαρος“foreign, strange”
- Latin · derived frombarbarus“foreigner, savage”
- English todaybarbarous
Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
Words from the same roots
Latinbarbarus all →
Barbarobarbarocracy
Ancient Greekβάρβαρος all →
BarbaraBerberBarabrabarbarocracy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.