Barbara

name

Etymology: * From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara. * (logic): From the given name; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives.

1. A female given name from Latin.

   “My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; […]”

   “All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.”

2. A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".

   “If you see a girl you like, prove it to her by Barbara and Celarent all the way to Fresison or whatever the logician's Omega is — I forget.”