Word: barbettes
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bar
be
ttes
Definition: Plural of barbette; a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
Morphemes:
Affix: barbette
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: barbe
Language: fr
Decoded: barbe
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Barbary horse
Affix: -ette
Language: fr
Decoded: -ette
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns meaning the female equivalent of.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.