basis

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (English come).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: bāʹsĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪsɪs/,[1]

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪs

basis (plural bases or (rare) baseis)

1. A physical base or foundation.
   • 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,

     Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
     Mountain on mountain thrown,
     With threatening hurl, that shook th' aerial firmament!

2. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
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     I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.

3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)

     Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.

4. A regular frequency.

   You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.

   The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.

   Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.

5. (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
6. (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
7. (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.

   The collection of all possible unions of basis elements of a basis is said to be the topology generated by that basis.

• (starting point for discussion): base

• absis, bassi, isbas

basis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of basar

basis

1. (linear algebra) basis

Borrowed from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.zəs/, /ˈbaː.zɪs/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧sis

basis f (plural basissen or bases, diminutive basisje n)

1. basis (principle, foundation, that which is elementary)
2. base (lower portion, foundation)
3. Obsolete form of base (“base, alkali”).

• basisarts
• basisbeurs
• basisdemocratie
• basisinkomen
• basisonderwijs
• basisschool
• machtsbasis
• thuisbasis

• basaal
• base

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑsis/, [ˈbɑs̠is̠]
• Hyphenation: ba‧sis

basis

1. basis, base

• bassi

From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis, “foundation, base”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈba.sis/, [ˈba.sɪs]

basis f (genitive basis); third declension

1. A pedestal, foot, base; basis, foundation.
2. (architecture) The lowest part of the shaft of a column.
3. (grammar) The primitive word, root.
4. (of cattle) A track, footprint.

Note that there are the alternative forms baseōs for the genitive singular, baseī for the ablative singular, basin for accusative singular, and baseis for the accusative plural. Third declension i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī.

• (basis, foundation): rādīx
• (pedestal, base): crepīdō
• (track, footprint): vestīgium

• basella
• basicula
• basilāris

• antibasis

• English: base, basis
• French: base
• German: Basis f
• Italian: base
• Russian: ба́за f (báza), ба́зис m (bázis)
• Spanish: base
• Swedish: bas

• basis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• basis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• basis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis)

basis m (definite singular basisen, indefinite plural basiser, definite plural basisene)

1. basis
2. base

• basisår
• verdensbasis

• “basis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis)

basis m (definite singular basisen, indefinite plural basisar, definite plural basisane)

1. basis
2. base

• basisår

• “basis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.