| barbar- (Greek > Latin: foreign, strange, outlandish).From Greek barbaros, "non-Greek, foreign, barbarous," from an Indo-European imitative base barb, "to stammer, stutter; unintelligible." The Greeks were quoted as saying that foreigners sounded as if they were saying, "Barbar, Barbar," which was, for the Greeks, unintelligible.Don't confuse this element with the barba- which means "beard". Barbara: barbaralalia: barbarian: barbarianess: barbarianism: barbarianiz: barbaric: barbarically: barbarism: barbarity: barbarization: barbarize: barbarized: barbarizing: barbarocracy: barbarous: barbarously: barbarousness: Barbary: debarbarization: debarbarize: disbarbarize: mixobarbaric: rebarbarization: rebarbarize: rebarbarizing: semibarbarian: unbarbarized: |