Responde al Robin TURNER:
 
> "Donald J. HARLOW" wrote:
>
> > Je 08:12 ptm 4/12/99 -0400, Arturo skribis:
> >
> > >Hola,
> > >?No es del lati'n y quiere decir "babudo?"
> > >Saludos,
> > >Arturo
> > >(Isn't it from Latin and means "bearded one"?)
> > >
> > >From what I remember, it comes from the Greek _barbaros_ and is the same as
> > the root from which we get "to babble". The
> > more-or-less-semi-sometimes-international root for "beard" (barb) comes
> > from the same source, since these babbling barbarians usually wore beards.
> >
>
> But surely at the time the word was coined, so did most Greeks.  Even someone as
> late as Epictetus rails against the "new" fashion of shaving (or more usually,
> plucking).
>
I think the solution depends on who coined "barb" for "beard(ed)" and
when. The creation of the word "barbaros" from "to babble" was, I'm
fairly certain, Greek; but it could easily have been the Romans who
took the next step from there (they were mostly clean-shaven,
themselves). Anybody know what Greek for "beard" is?
 
 
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