bascophone
bascophone is the alternative letter-case form of Bascophone.
Adjective capitalized: Bascophone
Bascophone (not generally comparable, comparative more Bascophone, superlative most Bascophone)
- Speaking the Basque language.
- The capital of Álava, Vitoria is the largest and least Bascophone of the three Basque provinces and the seat of the autonomous Basque government.1987, Kathleen Wheaton, editor, Spain (Insight Guides), APA Productions, →ISBN, page 252, column 1
- This determines to a significant degree the level of commitment to push for normalization and the level of tolerance of non-Bascophone speakers in allowing Euskera to penetrate into areas that traditionally have not been Bascophone.1999, Juan Cobarrubias, “Viability of the Basque Language in the Next Millennium”, in William A. Douglass, Carmelo Urza, Linda White, Joseba Zulaika, editors, Basque Cultural Studies (Occasional...
Noun capitalized: Bascophone
Bascophone (plural Bascophones)
- A speaker of the Basque language.
- However, the Bascophones have their worldly moments, in which they indulge in their national dances, their sad, sweet songs, set in a minor key, and the Souletin dramas, known as “pastorales,” the representation of which may last for seven or eight hours.1932, W[illia]m A[lbert] Amiet, “Basque Literature”, in Literature by Languages: A Roll Call, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson […], page 257
- Compared with some half-million Spanish Bascophones, there are only about 50,000 in France who speak one of the least comprehensible and least understood languages in the world, the only one in Europe which is not Indo-European, and of which, it is said, the Devil only mastered three words after...1985, Adam Ruck, “The Pyrenees”, in Ingrid Morgan, editor, The Holiday Which? Guide to France, 2nd edition, London: Consumers’ Association and Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 178
Forms of bascophone
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more bascophone |
| superlative | most bascophone |
| comparative | more Bascophone |
| superlative | most Bascophone |
| alternative form | bascophone |
| Noun | |
| plural | bascophones |
| plural | Bascophones |
Origin of bascophone
From French bascophone, from basque + -phone. By surface analysis, Basco- + -phone.
Questions about bascophone
- What does bascophone mean?
- Bascophone means speaking the Basque language.
- What is bascophone the alternative letter-case form of?
- Bascophone is the alternative letter-case form of Bascophone.
- What part of speech is bascophone?
- Bascophone can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near bascophone in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bascophone (page history and authors); Bascophone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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