Words that come from Late Latin “bassus”

400 words across 46 languages descend from Late Latin bassus — including base, basic, database, bases, baseball, basically, baseline, basement.

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English (207)

French (38)

Dutch (33)

Italian (17)

Spanish (12)

Catalan (7)

Galician (5)

Russian (5)

Portuguese (5)

Finnish (5)

Hungarian (4)

Cebuano (4)

Japanese (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Norman (4)

Chinese (3)

Turkish (3)

Ido (3)

Old French (3)

Czech (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Venetian (2)

Asturian (2)

Irish (2)

Tagalog (2)

Romansch (2)

Middle French (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

Polish (1)

Danish (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Friulian (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Norwegian (1)

Quechua (1)

Sicilian (1)

Korean (1)

Macedonian (1)

Burmese (1)

Hindi (1)

Persian (1)

Middle English (1)

Romanian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Malay (1)