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bassus

bassus

Latin

Adjective

bassus m ‎(feminine bassa, neuter bassum); first/second declension

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

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
nominative	bassus	bassa	bassum		bassī	bassae	bassa
genitive	bassī	bassae	bassī		bassōrum	bassārum	bassōrum
dative	bassō	bassae	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
Occitan: bas, baish
Old Portuguese: baixo
Portuguese: baixo
Romansh: bass, bas
Sicilian: vasciu
Spanish: bajo
Venetian: baso, bas

References

BASSUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray