basso

From Italian basso, from Latin bassus (“short, low”).[1] Doublet of base and bass.

• Rhymes: -æsəʊ

basso (plural bassos or bassi)

1. (music) A bass singer, especially in opera.
2. (music) An instrumental part written for a bass instrument.
3. (music) The double bass, or contrabasso.

basso (plural bassoes)

1. Obsolete spelling of bashaw or pasha.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=II or III), scene i:

     Great Kings of Barbary, and my portly Baſſoes,
     we heare, the Tartars & the Eaſterne theeues:
     Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine,
     Preſume a bickering with your Emperour: […]

• ASBOs, Asbos, asbos, bosas, sabos

Borrowed from Italian basso, from Late Latin bassus (“thick, low”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑsːo/, [ˈbɑ̝s̠ːo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑsːo
• Syllabification^(key): bas‧so

basso

1. (music) bass (voice; low spectrum of sound tones)
2. (music) bass guitar

• “basso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

From Late Latin bassus, possibly of Ancient Greek origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbas.so/

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• Rhymes: -asso
• Hyphenation: bàs‧so

basso (feminine bassa, masculine plural bassi, feminine plural basse, superlative bassissimo)

1. low

   Antonym: alto

2. short (in height)

   Synonym: piccolo

   Antonym: alto

3. narrow, thin

   Synonyms: sottile, stretto

4. shallow (of water)

   Synonym: poco profondo

5. faint (of light)

   Synonyms: debole, soffuso

6. low, lower, lowered (of position)
7. (figurative) base

   Synonyms: vile, meschino

basso

1. low

basso m (plural bassi)

1. bottom, lower part
2. (music) bass (all senses); bass guitar
3. (music) basso

• abbassare
• abbasso
• bassa
• bassamente
• bassezza
• bassista
• bassofondo
• bassorilievo
• bassotto
• bassotuba
• dabbasso
• in basso
• ribassare
• sbassare

bassō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of bassus

• básso

From Portuguese baixo, or some dialectal variant which retains -ss- from Late Latin bassus (“low, short”), with further semantic influence from debaixo.

basso

1. low

• Basso-Monte (“the lower part or area around Fortaleza do Monte”)
• Basso-Guia (“the area around Guia Hill”)

basso

1. (often with na) underneath

   Na básso di sól fórti amestê abrí paché

   Under the intense sun it is necessary to use an umbrella

• bassâ

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#b