bassus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis) or βαθύς (bathús), or from Oscan or Celtic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbas.sus/, [ˈbäs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbas.sus/, [ˈbäsːus]

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

• 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
  • Galician: baixo
  • Portuguese: baixo
• Romansch: bass, bas
• Sicilian: vasciu
• Spanish: bajo, baxo
  • → Cebuano: baho
• Venetian: baso, bas
• → Welsh: bas

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