Feminine

barricada

barricade (a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence)

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Hyphenated as
ba‧rri‧ca‧da
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bariˈkada/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from French barricade. By surface analysis, barrica (“cask”) + -ada (“group”), referring to the first street barricades in Paris, which were composed of casks filled with earth, paving stones, etc.

road block

tapadal

barykada

οδόφραγμα

barrage routier

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φράγμα

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