bar
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From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.
bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)
From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer,[1] from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate to Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar.
Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.
bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
bar
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
bar (plural bars)