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vox barbara

American  
[voks bahr-ber-uh] / ˈvɒks ˈbɑr bər ə /

noun

  1. a questionably unconventional word or term; barbarism: applied especially to New Latin terms in botany, zoology, etc., that are formed from elements that are neither Latin nor Greek.

Etymology

Origin of vox barbara

From Latin vōx barbara “foreign word or speech”

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