Translation
barrel, cask
Word origin
From French baril, by way of Old French and a late Latin barriclus, and cousin to English barrel. The origin beyond that is unsettled; the usual guess links it to a word for a bar or stave, the strips of wood a cooper binds into a cylinder.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- baril
- English cognates
- barrel, barrique
Examples
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Ten barrels of beer stood in the cellar.
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The wine stayed in the cask for five years.
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The barrel was full of water.
Nothing to take apart here either. Esperanto does have bari, to bar or block off, and -- looks as though it ought to be one of the little suffixes - but it is not a suffix at all. The diminutive is --, the tool suffix is --, and there is no -- in the language. - is a single root that borrowed its whole shape from French.
Useful company: o for a cooper, duonbarelo for a half-barrel, and the vessel scale that runs , botelo, , .
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