to become barbarous, unintelligible
to become barbarous, E. Or. 485, Antipho Soph. Oxy. 1364.274; οἱ βαρβαρωθέντες τόποι PLond. 5.1674.22 (vi A. D.); κακῷ κλάζοντας οἴστρῳ καὶ βεβαρβαρωμένῳ unintelligible, of birds, S. Ant. 1002.
The corpus record
βαρβᾰρ-όομαι
barbaroomai
to become barbarous
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Where it lives
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
- Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- βεβαρβάρωσαι · bebarbarōsai Euripides, Orestes 485 (DIORISIS sentence 333)
- βεβαρβαρωμένος · bebarbarōmenos Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 13
- βεβαρβαρωμένῳ · bebarbarōmenōi Sophocles, Antigone 999–1002
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.