Etymology

basque

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Today it means: A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain. Full definition →

French basque
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basque · noun1

  1. French · borrowed frombasque
  2. French · borrowed frombasque
  3. English todaybasque

Borrowed from French basque.

Basque · noun, adjective, proper noun2

  1. Latin · derived fromVascō
  2. Occitan · derived frombasc
  3. French · borrowed fromBasque
  4. English todayBasque

Borrowed from French Basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.

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