basso – English noun declension

English noun forms of basso

Noun: basso
Singularbasso
Pluralbassos; bassi; bassoes

Sample Sentences

  • Great Kings of Barbary, and my portly Baſſoes,
  • we heare, the Tartars & the Eaſterne theeues:
  • Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine,
  • Preſume a bickering with your Emperour: […] [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=II or III), scene i:]

Nouns inflected like basso

soprano, crescendo, basso,

Etymology

From Italian basso, from Latin bassus (“short, low”). Doublet of base and bass. See: Italian Nouns 'basso', Latin Nouns 'bassus'.