Barbaraとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin Barbara (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Compare Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian”).

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/
• ハイフネーション: Bar‧ba‧ra

固有名詞

Barbara (複数形 Barbaras)

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     : Scene 3:

     My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; […]

   • 17th century or before: English folk song: Barbara Allen: 1839 version by Thomas Percy:

     All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.

   • 1860 Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood) East Lynne. Kessinger Publishing, 2004. →ISBN page 29:

     "What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!" "I don't think so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!" Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.

   • 1922 Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, →ISBN, page 76:

     "Everybody in the next generation," suggested Dick, "will be named Peter or Barbara - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or Barbara."

   • 2007 Marina Lewycka, Two Caravans, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 299:

     'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.

派生語

• Pet forms: Babs, Barb, Barbie

Latin

語源

Probably a substantivisation, used as a proper noun, of the feminine forms of barbarus (“wild”, “savage”, “cruel”, “barbarous”), in elliptical use for Prensiō Barbara (“the Cruel Prison”). Compare barbara (“a wild, savage, cruel, または barbarous woman”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/, [ˈbar.ba.ɾa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/
• Homophone: barbara

固有名詞

Barbara f sg (genitive Barbarae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) the name of one of the more abominable prisons of the Grand Châtelet of Paris

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

Holonyms

• (prison of the Grand Châtelet): Castelletum

参照

• 2. BARBARA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)