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barca.

small boat; bark, barge;

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. baris (a type of flat-bottomed freighter used on the Nile in Ancient Egypt)

    Late-Latin · declension-1 · feminine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Egyptian bꜣjr Demotic Egyptian br Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare)der. Ancient Greek βᾶρῐς (bârĭs)der. Latin bāris Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Vulgar Latin -icusder. Vulgar Latin -ica Vulgar Latin *bārica Latin barca Late Latin, first attested in a late 2nd or early 3rd-century inscription in Balsa (ILS 5069). Surfaces again much later in Medieval Latin as barca, by that point a borrowing from Romance. Regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *bārica, from Latin bāris (“Egyptian shallow wide flat-bottomed river boat”), from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship”), b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1

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