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.

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Etymology

Origin of vox barbara

From Latin vōx barbara “foreign word or speech”