The corpus record — Latin

basio

basio · v. a

to kiss

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Where it lives

Satyricon 12 · 3.94/10k
Epigrammata 16 · 2.84/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

bāsĭo — Lewis & Short

bāsĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.basium,

I to kiss, to give a kiss (poet. and rare; most freq. in Cat.; not in Plaut. or Ter.): basia multa basiare, Cat. 7, 9; 8, 18; 48, 1 sq.; Mart. 1, 94, 2; 7, 95, 7; 11, 98, 8; Petr. 18, 4; 135, 2.

In the wild

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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