basis

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪs

Noun

basis (plural bases or (rare) baseis)

1. A physical base or foundation.
   • Congreve

     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.
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.

Anagrams

• absis, bassi, isbas

Verb

basis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of basar

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

1. basis
2. base

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

References

• 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

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis)

Noun

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

1. basis
2. base

References

• “basis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis)

Noun

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

1. basis
2. base

References

• “basis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.