The corpus record — Latin

Bassus

Bassus · m

a family cognomen

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Where it lives

Dialogus de Oratoribus 6 · 6.45/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Letters 23 · 3.55/10k
Epigrammata 15 · 2.67/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Historiae 10 · 1.94/10k
Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
Noctes Atticae 16 · 1.43/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 2 · 1.36/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Bassus — Lewis & Short

Bassus, i, m.,

I a family cognomen; e. g.

I A poet, a friend of Martial, Mart. 3, 76, 1 al.—

II Q. Caecilius Bassus, quœstor A. U. C. 695, Cic. Phil. 11, 13, 32; id. Att. 2, 9, 1; 14, 9, 3; id. Fam. 11, 1, 4; 12, 18, 1.—

III Lucilius Bassus, Cic. Att. 12, 5, 2.

In the wild

Bassi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.17
Bassi Martial, Epigrammata 6.69.2
Bassi Pliny the Younger, Letters 3.5.6
Bassus Martial, Epigrammata 3.47.15
Bassus Tacitus, Historiae 4.3
Basso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.27.p123

6 of 128 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. bassus (scan p. 91; entry #1199).

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