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basilar en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbeɪ.səl.ɚ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbæz.əl.ɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈbeɪ.zəl.ɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈbæs.əl.ɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈbas.ɪl.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin basilāris, irregularly from basis (“a pedestal, foot, base”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); or from French basilaire, from base (“base, basis”) + -aire (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix), in the pattern of cimbalaire (“cymbal-shaped”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, relational) Of, pertaining to, or located at a base, but especially at the base of the skull or an organ of Corti.
2. (not-comparable) Lower, inferior, base.
   • […] that which he has in common with the lion, the cow and the horse—namely, the basilar instincts and appetites that in the animal creation constitute the whole. 1883, Henry Ward Beecher, “What is the Bible?”, in Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church Brooklyn, volume 6, number 17, page 343:

Forms

Deriveds

basilar meningitis · cervicobasilar · bibasilar · basilar lamina · basilar groove · suprabasilar · basilar index · basilar crest · parietobasilar · petrobasilar · basilar membrane · vertebrobasilar · basilar artery · tribasilar · ventrobasilar · pharyngobasilar · vomerobasilar

Synonyms

basal

Translations (2)

cmn 基底的 (of, pertaining to, or located at a base) · es basilar (of, pertaining to, or located at a base)