Masculine
barbeiro
Meaning
- (masculine) barber (person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards)
- (colloquial, masculine, metonymically) barbershop (place of business of a barber)
- (Brazil, masculine) kissing bug (any haematophagous bug in the subfamily Triatominae)
- (Brazil, derogatory, masculine, slang) road hog (bad or inconsiderate driver)
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/baʁˈbe(j).ɾu/
Etymology
In summary
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ Proto-Italic *farβā Latin barba Old Galician-Portuguese barba Latin -ārius Old Galician-Portuguese -eiro Old Galician-Portuguese barbeiro Portuguese barbeiro Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese barbeiro, from barba + -eiro. Cognate with Galician barbeiro.
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