barre

Meaning

1. bar, cake, ingot
2. Clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩
3. Clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩
4. Clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩
5. Clipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨|⟩
6. Clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩
7. helm, tiller
8. bend sinister

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baʁ/

Etymology

From Middle French barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Frankish *bara (“bar, beam, barrier, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”).
If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (“bar, beam, one's cherished land”), Middle Dutch bāre, baer (“bar, barrier, rail”), Old Frisian ber (“attack, assault”), Swedish bärling (“a spoke”), Norwegian berling (“a small bar in a vehicle, rod”), Latin forus (“gangway, plank”), Russian забо́р (zabór, “fencing, paling, fence”), Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros, “piece of land, furrow, marker, beacon, lighthouse”).
An alternative etymology derives Old French barre and Vulgar Latin *barra from a Celtic source related to Breton barri (“branch, twig”).
Doublet of bar.

Sentences

Un garde d'un côté poussait sur la barre .

A guard on one side was pushing on the bar.

L'appareil est constitué d'une barre résonante ultracryogénique.

The device consists of an ultracryogenic resonant bar.