βαρβᾰρ-ίζω · barbar-izō — LSJ
behave, speak like a barbarian, speak broken Greek, speak gibberish
The corpus record
βαρβᾰρ-ίζω
barbarizo
behave, speak like a barbarian, speak broken Greek, speak gibberish
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Distribution
- Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
Senses
Attestations
- ἐβαρβάριζεν · ebarbarizen Epictetus, Discourses 3.9 (DIORISIS sentence 4301)
- ἐβαρβάριζε · ebarbarize Herodotus, Histories 2.57.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1951)
- βαρβαρίζοι · barbarizoi Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.35 (DIORISIS sentence 2108)
- βαρβαρίζοντες · barbarizontes Plato, Alcibiades 1 120
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