barbarian
意味
- 未開人,野蛮人;(ギリシア・ローマ人からみた)異邦人,異教徒
- 未開人の,野蛮な;無教養の
例文
Look under the skin of a civilized man and you will find a barbarian.
文明人も一皮むけば野蛮人。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English barbarian, borrowed from Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, foreigner”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”), from barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”), possibly onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to English blah blah). Cognate to Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian, non-Aryan, stammering, blockhead”).