# barrio
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish barrio, from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).

### Noun

barrio (plural barrios)
* A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
* A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
* (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighborhood.
** 2008, Resil B. Mojares, “Beast in the Fields”, in Gémino H. Abad, editor, Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino short stories in English: 1956 to 1972, page 413:In the barrio, they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.
* (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
** 1993, Diego Vigil, “The Established Gang”, in Scott Cummings, Daniel J. Monti, editors, Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States, page 98:After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.
** 1993, “Mr. Jones”, performed by Counting Crows:Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio

#### Derived terms

* barriotic
* subbarrio

## Classical Nahuatl
### Alternative forms

* barrioh

### Etymology

From Spanish barrio.

### Noun

barrio
* A district of an altepetl.

### References

* Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 211.

## Latin
### Etymology

From barrus (“elephant”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbar.ri.oː/, [ˈbärːioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbar.ri.o/, [ˈbärːio]

### Verb

barriō (present infinitive barrīre, perfect active barrīvī, supine barrītum); fourth conjugation, no passive
* (intransitive, Late Latin) to make the sound of an elephant

#### Derived terms

* barrītus

#### Descendants

* Italian: barrire
* Spanish: barritar

### References

* “barrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* barrio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “exterior”), referring to the outer, surrounding or less civilized or urbanized parts of a city, from classical Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”). Compare Portuguese bairro, Catalan barri.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbarjo/ [ˈba.rjo]
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* Rhymes: -arjo
* Syllabification: ba‧rrio

### Noun

barrio m (plural barrios)
* neighbourhood
    Synonym: vecindario
    un barrio de clase media ― a middle-class neighborhood
* (Mexico) any neighbourhood of the original or ancient part of a city (usually excluding new growth after the 1930s, 40s or 50s, depending on the state or city)
* (Venezuela, Dominican Republic) slum

#### Usage notes

* In Mexico it has postal value and is obligatory (or else the colonia or fraccionamiento is), alongside the postal code.

#### Derived terms

* barriada
* barrio bajo
* barrio residencial
* de barrio

#### Related terms

* barrial

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: baryo
* → Classical Nahuatl: barrio
* → English: barrio
* → Maranao: bariyo
* → Tagalog: baryo

### See also

* vecindad
* vecindario

### Further reading

* “barrio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* barrio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{es}$