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2007-02-17 08:51:42 · 9 answers · asked by dinamite 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
BArbarians are crude people who have no manners... who eat with their elbows on the table and talk with their mouths full...
2007-02-17 08:55:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Retrieved from Wikipedia--"'Barbarian' is a pejorative term for an uncivilized, uncultured person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the purportedly civilized society of the speaker. While the latter sense is always pejorative, the former one has not invariably been so, as described below.
Origin of the term
The word "Barbarian" comes into English from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from Latin barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient Greek word βάÏβαÏÎ¿Ï (barbaros) which meant a non-Greek, someone whose (first) language was not Greek. The word is imitative, the bar-bar representing the impression of random hubbub produced by hearing a spoken language that one cannot understand"
I hope it helps.
2007-02-17 17:00:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A Greek word adopted by the Romans to refer to any people who did not adopt the Roman way of life. It is said to have come originally from the sound bar-bar, which, according to the Greeks, was supposed to be the noise that people made when speaking foreign languages.
Also:
# savage: a member of an uncivilized people
# peasant: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
# without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
2007-02-17 16:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by M 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just as a librarian looks after a library a barbarian takes care of the bar.
2007-02-17 17:14:14 · answer #4 · answered by marcos 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dave is a barbarian
2007-02-17 23:18:25 · answer #5 · answered by scottish shark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from the Latin word for 'beard' (barbe in French). The Romans referred to the 'uncivilised' peoples that they conquered as 'bearded ones'.
Wikipedia appears to be wrong on this one!
2007-02-17 17:00:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who is not civilized, the Romans used it most i think,
2007-02-17 20:05:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a person that goes around with a big hammer and only eats anything that he/she can find
2007-02-17 17:00:37 · answer #8 · answered by olie33567 d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like a warrior?
2007-02-17 16:54:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋