bardus

Unknown, thought to be a loanword, perhaps from Etruscan.^[1] Compare bārō (“dunce, lout”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.dus/, [ˈbärd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.dus/, [ˈbärd̪us]

bardus (feminine barda, neuter bardum, comparative bardior); first/second-declension adjective

1. (rare) stupid, oafish, dull of apprehension

• Neither the superlative (*bardissimus) nor the adverbial (*bardē) is attested in Classical or Late sources.

First/second-declension adjective.

• combardus

• “1. bardus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 bardus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “208/2”

Attested since Lucan, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to approve, praise”), whence grātus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.dus/, [ˈbärd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.dus/, [ˈbärd̪us]

bardus m (genitive bardī); second declension

1. a bard (a poet and singer among the Gauls)

Second-declension noun.

• → French: barde
  • → Esperanto: bardo
  • → Finnish: bardi
  • → German: Barde
• → Galician: bardo
• → Hungarian: bárd
• → Italian: bardo
• → Portuguese: bardo
• → Spanish: bardo

• “††2. bardus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bardus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bardus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• 2 bardus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “208/2”