英语词汇“barrancas”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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Etymology

borrowed from American Spanish, from Spanish, feminine derivative of barranco "cliff, precipice, gully, ravine," of pre-Latin substratal origin

Note: Outcomes of a pre-Latin form *barrank-, with variants, are known primarily from Iberia and southern France, with outliers in Piedmont (Val Sesia baranca), Switzerland (Surselvan vraunca) and Calabria and Sicily (see references in Joan Coromines, Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, Madrid, 1984). Greek pharang-, pháranx "gully, chasm" seems inseparable from the Romance etymon (see note at pharynx)—all perhaps evidence of a trans-European substratal terrain term (or a pre-Indo-European Wanderwort?). The hypothesis of derivation with a suffix *-anka from a base *barr- "bar, barrier" (see bar entry 1) seems unlikely, despite forms such as Occitan barrancon "rung of a chair or ladder," almost certainly of secondary origin (cf. Johannes Hubschmid in Vox Romanica, vol. 11 [1950], pp. 265-66).

First Known Use

1648, in the meaning defined at sense 1

单词	barrancas
释义	barranca noun bar·ran·ca bə-ˈraŋ-kə variants or less commonly barranco bə-ˈraŋ-(ˌ)kō plural barrancas also barrancos 1 : a deep gully or arroyo with steep sides 2 : a steep bank or bluff Synonyms bluff cliff crag escarpment palisade precipice scar scarp See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences the intimidating barrancas that can be found in the Sierra Nevada Word History Etymology borrowed from American Spanish, from Spanish, feminine derivative of barranco "cliff, precipice, gully, ravine," of pre-Latin substratal origin Note: Outcomes of a pre-Latin form barrank-, with variants, are known primarily from Iberia and southern France, with outliers in Piedmont (Val Sesia baranca), Switzerland (Surselvan vraunca) and Calabria and Sicily (see references in Joan Coromines, Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico,* Madrid, 1984). Greek pharang-, pháranx "gully, chasm" seems inseparable from the Romance etymon (see note at pharynx)—all perhaps evidence of a trans-European substratal terrain term (or a pre-Indo-European Wanderwort?). The hypothesis of derivation with a suffix -anka from a base barr- "bar, barrier" (see bar entry 1) seems unlikely, despite forms such as Occitan barrancon "rung of a chair or ladder," almost certainly of secondary origin (cf. Johannes Hubschmid in Vox Romanica, vol. 11 [1950], pp. 265-66). First Known Use 1648, in the meaning defined at sense 1 barrancas noun variants also barrancos plural of barranca as in cliffs a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice the intimidating barrancas that can be found in the Sierra Nevada Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance cliffs palisades scars escarpments bluffs crags precipices scarps tors cuestas buttes declivities hogbacks embankments pitches bulwarks drop-offs
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barranca

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