bāsĭātĭo — Lewis & Short
bāsĭātĭo, ōnis,
I f [basio], a kissing; meton (abstr pro concr.), a kiss (rare; cf. osculum), *Cat. 7, 1; Mart. 7, 95, 17; 2, 23, 4.
The corpus record — Latin
basiatio
basiatio
a kissing
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
- Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- basiationes Martial, Epigrammata 2.23.4
- basiationes Catullus, Carmina lyrics.7.1
- basiationes Martial, Epigrammata 7.95.17
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.