bassus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis) or βαθύς (bathús), or from Oscan or Celtic.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbas.sus/, [ˈbäs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbas.sus/, [ˈbäsːus]
Adjective edit
bassus (feminine bassa, neuter bassum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) thick, fat, stumpy, short, low, base
Declension edit
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 edit
- Aragonese: baxo
- Asturian: baxu
- Catalan: baix
- English: abase, bas relief, base, bass
- Extremaduran: bahu
- French: bas
- Friulian: bas
- → Hungarian: basszus
- Italian: basso
- Neapolitan: vascio, abbascio
- Occitan: bas, baish
- Old Galician-Portuguese: baixo
- Romansch: bass, bas
- Sicilian: vasciu
- Spanish: bajo, baxo
- → Cebuano: baho
- Venetian: baso, bas
- → Welsh: bas
References edit
- 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