βαρβᾰρό-φωνος · barbaro-phōnos — LSJ
speaking a foreign tongue
speaking a foreign tongue, Κᾶρες Il. 2.867; of the Persians, Orac. ap. Hdt. 8.20, 9.43.
II speaking bad Greek
speaking bad Greek, Str. 14.2.28.
The corpus record
βαρβαρόφωνος
barbarophonos
speaking a foreign tongue
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Where it lives
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- βαρβαρόφωνος · barbarophōnos Herodotus, Histories 8.20.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8550)
- βαρβαρόφωνον · barbarophōnon Herodotus, Histories 9.43.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9625)
- βαρβαροφώνων · barbarophōnōn Iliad 2.867
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.