barrique

See also: bârrique

English

Etymology

From French barrique (“barrel, cask”). Doublet of breaker.

Noun

barrique (plural barriques)

1. (historical) A barrel or cask of varying capacity, very roughly 200 litres.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan barrica, from Vulgar Latin *barrica (“barrel, cask”), from Gaulish *baril (“cask, barrel”); perhaps related to the source of Vulgar Latin *barra.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁik/

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• Rhymes: -ik

Noun

barrique f (plural barriques)

1. barrel, cask

   Synonym: tonneau

2. (figuratively, derogatory) fatty, fatso

Derived terms

• barricade

Descendants

• → German: Barrique
• → Italian: barrique
• → Malagasy: barika
• → Moore: barika
• → Moore: birkɛ

References

1. “breaker”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

• “barrique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French barrique.

Noun

barrique f (invariable)

1. barrique (oak barrel of about 200 litre capacity, for storing wine)

Portuguese

Verb

barrique

1. inflection of barricar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative