The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβάσις“base”
- English todaybasicerite
From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis, “base”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ite.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβάσις all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.