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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (4 entries · 12 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• base (adj.):
    1. I. Worthless: chiefly in expr. b. money, nummi adulterini, Cic.: v. counterfeit, false.
    2. II. Without moral ref., low, obscure, mean: esp. of ancestry:
      1. 1. hŭmĭlis, e: born of b. parentage, h. parentibus natus, Cic.: b.-born, humilis natus, Phaedr.
      2. 2. ignōtus: v. obscure, mean.
    3. III. Grovelling, abject; q. v.: abjectus.
    4. IV. In moral sense, disgraceful: turpis: no one becomes utterly b. all at once, nemo repente fit turpissimus, Juv.: b. deeds, t. facta, Cic.: v. shameful, dishonourable.
    5. V. Of musical tones: deep, grave: grăvis, e: a very b. sound, gravissimus sonus, Cic.: v. bass.
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• base (subs.):
    1. I. The bottom or groundwork of anything:
      1. 1. băsis, is, f.: on the b. of the statues, in basi statuarum, Cic.: the b. of a triangle, b. trianguli, Cic.
      2. 2. băsella (a small b.): Pall.
      3. 3. spīra (only of columns): Vitr.: Plin. Phr.: two rivers washed the b. of that hill, ejus collis radices duo flumina subluebant, Caes.: v. foot, foundation.
    2. II. Milit. t. t.: base of operations (Gr. ἀφορμὴ): *ea regio unde exercitui copiae cujusque generis suppeditantur.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• 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.
GRG Georges (1)
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Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (8th ed., 1913/1918). Digitized data accessed from latin-dict.github.io and is in the public domain.
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Base, amĭta (Vatersschwester).
matertĕra (Mutterschwester).
cognata (Anverwandte übh.).