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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis) or βαθύς (bathús), or from Oscan or Celtic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bassus (feminine bassa, neuter bassum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) thick, fat, stumpy, short, low, base
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- bassus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “bassus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “bassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray