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barbarous (adj.)
c.1400, "uncivilized, uncultured, ignorant," from Latin
barbarus
, from Greek
barbaros
(see
barbarian
). Meaning "not Greek or Latin" (of words or language) is from c.1500; that of "savagely cruel" is from 1580s.
