Basque

Meanings

Noun

• The language of the Basque people.
• A member of a people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay in France and Spain.

Adjective

• Relative to the Basque people or their language.

Origin

• Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs, a Roman era tribe in the Franco-Cantabrian region of southern Europe who were ancestors of the current Basque population. Cognate to Gascon; see Gascony for details.