The corpus record

βαρβᾰρ-ίζω

barbarizo

behave, speak like a barbarian, speak broken Greek, speak gibberish

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Where it lives

Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

behave, speak like a barbarian, speak broken Greek, speak gibberish, violate the laws of speech, commit barbarisms

behave or speak like a barbarian, Hdt. 2.57, Philostr. VA 1.21, Arr. An. 7.6.5; speak broken Greek, speak gibberish, Pl. Tht. 175d codd. (sed leg. βατταρίζων) ; βαρβαριζόντων ἑτεροφώνων Phld. Po. 994.6; violate the laws of speech, commit barbarisms, τῇ λέξει β. Arist. SE 165b21, cf. Plb. 39.1.7, Str. 14.2.28, Luc. Rh.Pr. 17, 23, etc.; distd. from σολοικίζω, Phld. Rh. 1.154 S.

2 ‘murder’, mangle

trans., ‘murder’, mangle, τὴν Ῥωμαίων φωνήν Luc. Merc.Cond. 24.

II side with the barbarians, the Persians

side with the barbarians, i.e. the Persians, X. HG 5.2.35, Max.Tyr. 4.2.

In the wild

ἐβαρβάριζεν · ebarbarizen Epictetus, Discourses 3.9 (DIORISIS sentence 4301)
ἐβαρβάριζε · ebarbarize Herodotus, Histories 2.57.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1951)
βαρβαρίζοντες · barbarizontes Plato, Alcibiades 1 120
βαρβαρίζοι · barbarizoi Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.35 (DIORISIS sentence 2108)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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