bassus

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

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

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• "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