Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barbigerous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bar-bi-ger-ous
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"1810, James Kennedy, Glenochel, Glasgow: R. Chapman, Volume 2, p. 118, Profoundly thoughtful looks the sage, / Barbigerous, and priestly mien’d;"
"1972, Saul K. Padover, Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography, New York: McGraw-Hill, Chapter 20, p. 348, the author magnificently barbigerous and the publisher elegantly bearded but bald"
"[…] check out a portrait of the earl and you’ll see on his chin a barbigerous bulk that makes the poor fellow look like an Elizabethan cross between two Sams: Uncle and Yosemite."

Etymology

From Latin barbiger from barba (“beard”) + gerō (“carry, wear”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: barbiger

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

more barbigerous (comparative) most barbigerous (superlative)

Questions

What does barbigerous mean?: Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
Where does barbigerous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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