baroque
English
/bæˈɹɒk/, /bəˈɹoʊk/
adj
Definitions
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
Etymology
Borrowed from French baroque derived from Portuguese barroco (irregular pearl) derived from Latin verrūca (wart, steep place, height, heights).
Origin
Latin
verrūca
Gloss
wart, steep place, height, heights
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Baroque English
- baroquely English
- baroqueness English
- baroquest English
- baroquey English
- unbaroque English
- verruca English
- verruca Latin
- verrūca Latin
- baroccamente Italian
- baroccheggiante Italian
- barocchismo Italian
- barocco Italian
- neobarocco Italian
- prebarocco Italian
- protobarocco Italian
- barok Dutch, Flemish
- baroque French
- baroquisme French
- verrue French
- барокко Russian
- barroco Spanish, Castilian
- barrueco Spanish, Castilian
- verruga Spanish, Castilian
- *wers- Proto-Indo-European
- barokk Norwegian Bokmål
- Barroco Portuguese
- Barroco, barroco Portuguese
- barocco Portuguese
- barroco Portuguese
- verruga Portuguese
- barokk Norwegian Nynorsk
- baroka Esperanto
- veruko Esperanto
- baroque Middle French
- *verroccon Proto-Celtic