basculi

Catalan

Verb

basculi

  1. inflection of bascular:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

basculi

  1. inflection of basculare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Bascli

Etymology

The two demonyms, from different periods, are most likely false cognates. The classical Basculi formed from alternating the t in Bastuli, a name related to Bastetani.[1] The medieval term is roughly contemporaneous with Old French bascle and apparently related to Latin vascones.

Noun

basculi ? (Basculi)

  1. (Classical Latin, demonym) alternative form of bastuli (“A people of Hispania Baetica; Bastetani”)
  2. (Medieval Latin, demonym) plural of Basculus - basque.

See also

References

  1. ^ “basculi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press; and a note in "C": "...as the Romans interchange the terminations icius and itius, ...they also wrote Basculi or Bastuli...".
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