English → Latin
“base” in Latin
illīberālisignoble, ungenerous, sordid, mean, disobliging; niggardly, graspingabiciōto throw or hurl down or away, cast or push away or aside; to give up, abandon; expose; discard; to humble, degrade, redturpisugly, unsightly; foul, filthy; cacophonous, disagreeable; base, infamous, scandalous, dishonorable, shameful, disgracefuimprobusexcessive, immoderate, flagrant, impudent; greedy, wanton, ravenous; wicked, bad, villainous, immoral, impious, malicioufoedustreaty, compact, alliance, truce, league; agreement, bond, contract, compact, pact, pledge, conditions, terms; covenantspuriusof illegitimate birth but unknown father; false, spuriousnothusspurious; illegitimate, bastard (but of a known father); false, counterfeitlēgitimuslawful, legal, legitimate; legal (of or pertaining to the law); legitimate (born of married parents)basisa pedestal, foot, base; the base of a triangle, chord of an arc; the lowest part of the shaft of a columnfundāmentumfoundation; beginning; basis
The English word base itself goes back to Latin basis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
base
illiberalis (unworthy of a gentleman): abjectus (despicable): turpis (shameful): improbus (unprincipled): foedus (abominable): a base design, foedum consilium.
Base-born, nullo patre natus; incerto patre natus; spurius; nothus (νόθος, born out of wedlock: opposed to justa uxore natus; legitimus): adulterino sanguine natus.
Base coin, nummi or numi adulterini: to make base coin, pecunias vitiare (Eutropius, 9, 14); monetam adulterinam exercere (Ulp., Dig., 48, 13, 6, § 1); numos adulterinos percutere (Suet., Ner., 25).
Of base extraction, humili or ignobili, obscuro or tenui loco ortus; humili fortuna ortus: of the basest extraction, infimae conditionis et fortunae; intimus; sordido loco ortus; infimi ordinis or generis; infimae sortis.
base
basis; fundamentum.
Pedestal, stylobates (στυλοβάτης)
Of a mountain, radices montis (not pes montis).
A base voice, vox gravis or ima (†); sonus gravis: deep base, sonus gravissimus: to sing a base, voce ima canere (†): a base-viol, fides gravioris soni: a player on the base-viol, gravioris soni fidicen: base notes, notae vocis imae.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for base?
- The usual Latin words for “base” are illīberālis, abiciō, turpis; also improbus, foedus, spurius. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.