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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=la bāsium}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈbaː.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈbaː.s̬i.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''bāsiō''' (present infinitive bāsiāre, perfect active bāsiāvī, supine bāsiātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|bāsium|-ō|t1=kiss]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan thinks [[m|la|bāsium]], which Catullus brought into the written language, is probably a loanword, perhaps Celtic, given that Catullus came from Verona.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Catullus uses it first,^(de Vaan 2008) asking in poem 7 how many kisses would be enough for him to kiss Lesbia with (''bāsia multa bāsiāre'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to kiss.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short call it poetic and rare, most frequent in Catullus and absent from Plautus and Terence;^(Lewis & Short 1879) after Catullus it occurs in Martial and Petronius.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The grammarian Probus gives Martial as the authority for the perfect ''bāsiāvī''.^(TLL) The glosses render it with [[grc|καταφιλέω|tr=kataphiléō|t=to kiss]] and Latin [[ōsculor]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of many kisses.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|kiss]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[bāsiātiō]]

+ * [[bāsiātor]]

+ * [[perbāsiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ōsculor]]

+ * [[suāvior]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}