barbarossa

Other forms of barbarossa

plural

barbarossas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barbarossa

What does barbarossa mean?

barbarossa means "Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barbarossa?

barbarossa has 4 syllables and divides as bar-ba-ros-sa under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for barbarossa?

Close synonyms include Frederick I, Frederick Barbarossa, Khayr ad-Din. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barbarossa a common word?

barbarossa is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.