The corpus record — Latin

barbitium

a growth of beard

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

What it meant

1. barbitium — de Vaan

barbitium 'a growth of beard' (Apul.+); imberbis [adj.] 'beardless' (Lucil.+), Pit. *farja- 'beard'. Modern Italian farfecchie 'moustache' may reflect Sab., probably U. *farfa. IE cognates: OPr. bordus 'tjeard', Lith. barzda (acc.sg. bafzdq) , Latv. bhrda, OCS brada, Ru. boroda 'id.' < BSJ. *borda?, Lith. barziotas, OCS bradatyi 'bearded'; OHG barU OE beard, OFr. berd[m.] < Gm. *bard-a-* From Pit. *farfa, we expect … — [de Vaan, s.v. barbitium, p. 83]

2. barbĭtĭum — Lewis & Short

barbĭtĭum, ii, n.id., = barba,

I the beard (perh. only in App.), App. M. 5, p. 162, 21; 11, p. 260, 40.

In the wild

barbitio Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.8
barbitio Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.8

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. barbitium (scan p. 83; entry #140). Root candidates: *farja-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. barbitium (scan p. 119; entry #1713).

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