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baris

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈbaː.rɪs][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈbaː.ris][1]

Forms

bāris f (genitive bāridos); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris),[2][3][1][4] from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare),[1][2] which Wiktionary traces through Demotic to Egyptian bꜣjr.[1] Etymonline mentions it as one possible source of Medieval Latin ⟨barga⟩, the origin of English barge, through an unattested ⟨*barica⟩.[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL knows it only from Propertius, who has Liburnian warships follow bāridos et contīs, “the baris and its poles”.[3][2][4]

Semantic evolution

Lewis & Short describe it as a small Egyptian rowing boat,[6] the OLD as a flat-bottomed boat of the Nile;[2] Köbler calls it an Egyptian skiff or a kind of raft.[4] It keeps its Greek genitive ⟨bāridos⟩.[2][3]

Timeline

  • 57/46–12 BC – Propertius mentions the baris and its poles.[3][4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A flat-bottomed boat used on the Nile, an Egyptian barge.[2][6][1]
  • English barge

Usage notes

As a proper name, Baris was a town in Calabria, towns in Pisidia and Lydia, and, according to Hegesippus, the old name of the citadel beside the Temple in Jerusalem, later called Antonia after the triumvir Antony.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
  6. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press