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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɑːsk/
- (UK, US) enPR: bask, IPA(key): /bæsk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Homophones: bask, basque
- Rhymes: -æsk
Noun
Basque (plural Basques)
- A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
Translations
member of a people
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Proper noun
Basque
Derived terms
Translations
language
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Adjective
Basque (not comparable)
- Relating to the Basque people or their language.
Derived terms
Translations
relating to the Basque people or their language
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Translations to be checked
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Basque terms
- Appendix:Basque Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Basque
Further reading
- ISO 639-1 code eu, ISO 639-3 code eus (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Basque, eus
French
Etymology
See basque.
Pronunciation
Noun
Basque m or f by sense (plural Basques)
- Basque (person of either gender)
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- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Occitan
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/æsk
- Rhymes:English/æsk/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
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- French 1-syllable words
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- French nouns
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- French masculine nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French nouns with multiple genders
- French masculine and feminine nouns by sense
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