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basso - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

basso (plural bassos or bassi)

  • (music) A bass singer, especially in opera.
  • (music) An instrumental part written for a bass instrument.
  • (music) The double bass, or contrabasso.

Noun

basso (plural bassoes)

  • Obsolete spelling of bashaw and pasha.
    • ✤ 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: […]      1

Etymology 1

From Italian basso, from Latin bassus (“short, low”).2 Doublet of base and bass.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æsəʊ

Etymology 2

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 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, scene i: ↩

  2. “basso” in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 8th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1973 (1974 printing), →OCLC. ↩

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