The story
- Latin · derived frombarba“beard”
- Middle French · derived fromrebarber“to oppose”
- French · borrowed fromrébarbatif
- English todayrebarbative
From French rébarbatif, rébarbative (“repellent, disagreeable”), from Middle French rebarber (“to oppose”), ultimately from Latin barba (“beard”), literally “to stand beard to beard against”.
Words from the same roots
Latinbarba all →
barberburbotbarbal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.