basium
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *bu. Compare English buss and Persian بوس (bus, “kiss”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbaː.si.um/, [ˈbäːs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈba.si.um/, [ˈbäːs̬ium]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun[edit]
bāsium n (genitive bāsiī or bāsī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | bāsium | bāsia |
Genitive | bāsiī bāsī1 |
bāsiōrum |
Dative | bāsiō | bāsiīs |
Accusative | bāsium | bāsia |
Ablative | bāsiō | bāsiīs |
Vocative | bāsium | bāsia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: bãshiu
- Asturian: besu
- Catalan: bes
- Dalmatian: biss
- Friulian: buss, buš
- Galician: beixo
- Italian: bacio
- Ladino: bezo
- Occitan: bais
- Old French: baisier
- Old Portuguese: beijo
- Portuguese: beijo
- Romansch: bitsch, betsch, bütsch
- Sardinian: basu, baxu, vasu
- Sicilian: vasu
- Spanish: beso
- Venetian: baxo
References[edit]
- “basium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “basium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- basium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Pokorny *bu
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