Basque

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the language of the Basque people, spoken in parts of northern Spain and southwestern France and not known to be related to any other living language

   Basque remained the primary language spoken in her family home.

2. 2
   noun

   a member of the Indigenous people of the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay region

   He is a Basque from a coastal town near Bilbao.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to the Basque people, their language, or the Basque Country

   The festival featured Basque music, food, and traditional sports.

Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon basc and ultimately Latin Vasco, Vascones, the Roman name for a people of the western Pyrenees. The people's own language name is Euskara.

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