Where does “basset” come from?
Basset comes from French bassette, from Italian bassetta, from Italian bassetto, from Italian basso meaning low, from Latin bassus, from Ancient Greek βάσις, from Proto-Indo-European gʷémtis.
basset (English): The edge of a geological stratum at the surface...
Definitions
- The edge of a geological stratum at the surface...
Ancestry of “basset”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | bassette | short-legged |
| 2 | Italian | bassetta | An early card game that used only low-value cards |
| 3 | Italian | bassetto | shrimp; basset horn |
| 4 | Italian | -etto | Alterative suffix used to form melioratives,... |
| 5 | English | -et | Used to form diminutives, loosely construed |
| 6 | Middle English | -et | Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,... |
| 7 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 8 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |