bassus

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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

  1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) thick, fat, stumpy, short, low, base

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative bassus bassa bassum bassī bassae bassa
Genitive bassī bassae bassī bassōrum bassārum bassōrum
Dative bassō bassō bassīs
Accusative bassum bassam bassum bassōs bassās bassa
Ablative bassō bassā bassō bassīs
Vocative basse bassa bassum bassī bassae bassa

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