Basque

/bæsk/

UK: /bæsk/

Basque

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Definition

A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.

Etymology

Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.