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• (given name): Barbra

語源

• From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara.
• (logic): From the given name; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives.

発音

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

固有名詞

Barbara (plural Barbaras)

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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, published 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, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3), 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.

   • 2025 June 5, Grace Gilson, “Boulder’s ‘shocked and traumatized’ Jewish community takes stock of losses and strengths”, in The Times of Israel‎:

     Among Soloway’s congregants injured in the attack was Barbara Steinmetz, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who has become one of the most poignant symbols of the attack.

2. (logic) A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".
   • (Can we date this quote by Aleister Crowley, Felo De Se and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     If you see a girl you like, prove it to her by Barbara and Celarent all the way to Fresison or whatever the logician's Omega is — I forget.

派生語

• Pet forms: Babs, Barb, Barbie
• herb Barbara (Barbarea vulgaris)
• Santa Barbara shelled slug

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈbar.ba.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)