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basculi

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Catalan

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Verb

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basculi

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

Italian

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Verb

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basculi

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

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Latin

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Etymology

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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

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basculi ? (Basculi)

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

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References

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  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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