Feminine
barre
- (feminine) bar, cake, ingot
- (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, feminine) clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩
- (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, feminine) clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩
- (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, feminine) clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩
- (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, feminine) clipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨|⟩
- (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, feminine) clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩
- (feminine) helm, tiller
- (feminine) bend sinister
- (feminine, slang) erection, boner
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/baʁ/
Etymology
In summary
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.
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