Name: English Tutor Nick P Word Origins (47) Barbarian
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Hi  this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins 47. The word origin today is barbarian.

Adverbs of manner

Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.  Today the word barbarian is mostly

used to mean somebody who is cruel or violent or or also uncivilized  too. We call

we might call somebody a barbarian.  Let's continue here. The origin of the

word barbarian goes all the way back to ancient Greece. I was used in reference

to describe all non-Greek speaking people which included Persians. And

remember Persians today they are Iranians.  Egyptians

Medes and Phoenicians. Okay. The word derives directly from the Greek  word

Barbaros. Okay.  Which meant a Babbler or you know,  people who just talk like a lot

of nonsense.  Babble on (blah ,blah, blah )  babbling on. So a babbler,  remember

Babble means to talk quickly in a way others cannot understand or to make

sounds like a baby,  (ba, ba, ,ba ) kind of like that too.  To the Greeks it was a foreign

language that sounded like bar,  bar,  bar,  bar. So that's where they got the idea of

barbarian from or Barbaros. That's how it came about. Later during the Roman

Empire,  now remember the Romans conquered the Greeks and after the Romans

conquered the Greeks,  they actually adopted a lot from the Greeks.  I think

they kind of respected the Greeks. They adopted a lot of their their gods,  their

religions their temples,  some of the technology and stuff like that. So they

kind of  you know,  they kind of went together pretty well. So during the Roman

Empire,  it meant a foreigner who lacked Greek and

Roman traditions. All right. So it was kind of combined after that,  especially

tribes who were a threat to Roman borders like later on. You know later

probably as the Roman Empire was getting weaker

you know,  around the 500s. Around that time.  Around 500 AD or so. They were thought to

be violent and non-educated. Okay. So and yeah. So we... I just give like one

sort of example. In his early days of acting , Arnold Schwarzenegger played the

character of " Conan the Barbarian" Yeah That's actually,  it's actually from

Marvel. They haven't made a Marvel movie of him like in a long time. That was in

the eighties when most people didn't even ...weren't really aware of Marvel so

much in the movies. Because you know,  you didn't need any special effects for that.

But you wonder if they... Marvel has an opportunity to bring this back as they

did have the character Conan the Barbarian that was very popular during

the time you know,  that people were you know reading comics. That character and

they did make a movie of him.  Obviously if they make it now,  probably

Conan,  I mean Arnold will probably not play it anymore. But he did actually make

two movies of it and the the first one was actually pretty good. The second one

was so-so.  But anyway that's,  that's what we say.

Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was informative.  I hope you enjoyed it. Thank