barrio

See also: Barrio, barrió, and bario

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish barrio, that from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).

Noun

barrio (plural barrios)

1. A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America.
2. A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
3. (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighbourhood.
   • 2008, Resil B. Mojares, “Beast in the Fields”, in Gémino H. Abad, editor, Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino short stories in English: 1956 to 1972, page 413:

     In the barrio, they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.

4. (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
   • 1993, Diego Vigil, “The Established Gang”, in Scott Cummings, Daniel J. Monti, editors, Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States, page 98:

     After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.

   • 1993, “Mr. Jones”, performed by Counting Crows:

     Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio

Derived terms

• barriotic
• subbarrio

 

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• barrioh

Etymology

From Spanish barrio.

Noun

barrio

1. A district of an altepetl.

References

• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 211.

Latin

Etymology

From barrus (“elephant”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ri.oː/, [ˈbärːioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ri.o/, [ˈbärːio]

Verb

barriō (present infinitive barrīre, perfect active barrīvī, supine barrītum); fourth conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive, Late Latin) to make the sound of an elephant

Conjugation

Conjugation of barriō (fourth conjugation, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	barriō	barrīs	barrit	barrīmus	barrītis	barriunt
	imperfect	barriēbam	barriēbās	barriēbat	barriēbāmus	barriēbātis	barriēbant
	future	barriam	barriēs	barriet	barriēmus	barriētis	barrient
	perfect	barrīvī	barrīvistī	barrīvit	barrīvimus	barrīvistis	barrīvērunt, barrīvēre
	pluperfect	barrīveram	barrīverās	barrīverat	barrīverāmus	barrīverātis	barrīverant
	future perfect	barrīverō	barrīveris	barrīverit	barrīverimus	barrīveritis	barrīverint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	barriam	barriās	barriat	barriāmus	barriātis	barriant
	imperfect	barrīrem	barrīrēs	barrīret	barrīrēmus	barrīrētis	barrīrent
	perfect	barrīverim	barrīverīs	barrīverit	barrīverīmus	barrīverītis	barrīverint
	pluperfect	barrīvissem	barrīvissēs	barrīvisset	barrīvissēmus	barrīvissētis	barrīvissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	barrī	—	—	barrīte	—
	future	—	barrītō	barrītō	—	barrītōte	barriuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		barrīre	barrīvisse	barrītūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		barriēns	—	barrītūrus	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		barriendī	barriendō	barriendum	barriendō	barrītum	barrītū

Derived terms

• barrītus

Descendants

• Italian: barrire
• Spanish: barritar

References

• “barrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• barrio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “exterior”), referring to the outer, surrounding or less civilized or urbanized parts of a city, from classical Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”). Compare Portuguese bairro, Catalan barri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarjo/ [ˈba.rjo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -arjo
• Syllabification: ba‧rrio

Noun

barrio m (plural barrios)

1. neighbourhood

   Synonym: vecindario

   un barrio de clase media ― a middle-class neighborhood

2. (Mexico) any neighbourhood of the original or ancient part of a city (usually excluding new growth after the 1930s, 40s or 50s, depending on the state or city)
3. (Venezuela, Dominican Republic) slum

Usage notes

• In Mexico it has postal value and is obligatory (or else the colonia or fraccionamiento is), alongside the postal code.

Derived terms

• barriada
• barrio bajo
• barrio residencial
• de barrio

 

Related terms

• barrial

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: baryo
• → Classical Nahuatl: barrio
• → English: barrio
• → Maranao: bariyo
• → Tagalog: baryo

See also

• vecindad
• vecindario

Further reading

• “barrio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• barrio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es