bassus
Latin
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis), or from Oscan or Celtic.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbas.sus/, [ˈbäs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbas.sus/, [ˈbäsːus]
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.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms borrowed from Oscan
- Latin terms derived from Oscan
- Latin terms borrowed from Celtic languages
- Latin terms derived from Celtic languages
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Late Latin
- Medieval Latin