BASE Copy link • BASE 1. illiberalis (unworthy of a gentleman): abjectus (despicable): turpis (shameful): improbus (unprincipled): foedus (abominable): a base design, foedum consilium. Base-born, nullo patre natus; incerto patre natus; spurius; nothus (νόθος, born out of wedlock: opposed to justa uxore natus; legitimus): adulterino sanguine natus. Base coin, nummi or numi adulterini: to make base coin, pecunias vitiare (Eutropius, 9, 14); monetam adulterinam exercere (Ulp., Dig., 48, 13, 6, § 1); numos adulterinos percutere (Suet., Ner., 25). Of base extraction, humili or ignobili, obscuro or tenui loco ortus; humili fortuna ortus: of the basest extraction, infimae conditionis et fortunae; intimus; sordido loco ortus; infimi ordinis or generis; infimae sortis. 2. basis; fundamentum. Pedestal, stylobates (στυλοβάτης) Of a mountain, radices montis (not pes montis). A base voice, vox gravis or ima (†); sonus gravis: deep base, sonus gravissimus: to sing a base, voce ima canere (†): a base-viol, fides gravioris soni: a player on the base-viol, gravioris soni fidicen: base notes, notae vocis imae.