Bassus

== Latin == === Etymology === From bassus (“short, low”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbas.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbas.sus] === Proper noun === Bassus m sg (genitive Bassī); second declension A Roman cognomen — famously held by: Aufidius Bassus, a Roman historian ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Bassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Bassus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.