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Etymology

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From basis (base) +‎ pila (ball (game)), a calque of English baseball.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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basipila f sg (genitive basipilae); first declension

  1. (Contemporary Latin) baseball (sport)
    • 1996, Latinitas[1], volume 44, Vatican City: Pontifical Academy for Latin, →ISSN, page 350:
      Sub finem mensis Novembris nata crudelis, Roderico iuvante, suum patrem suamque matrem baculo, quo basipila (base-ball) ludentes utuntur, verberavit, percussit, interfecit et ambo sanguinem e corporibus excruciatis manantem biberunt.
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    • 2005, Latinitas, volume 53, Vatican City: Pontifical Academy for Latin, →ISSN, page 59:
      Sunt ergo quaedam ludorum genera singulis nationibus et populis quasi propria: basipilae ludus (baseball), ut exemplum afferam, qui in Americae Foederatis Civitatibus tot admiratores studiosissimos habet, extra earum fines paene ignotus est.
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    • 2008, James M. May, “Ovationes Anni Salutis MMVIII”, in The Classical Journal[2], volume 104, number 1, CAMWS, →ISSN, page 91:
      Vel eum in vestibus suis gloriari, portantem bracas pictoris, focale in forma piscis, vestimentum laneum, et in capite pilleum rubrum basipilae—eodem tempore? Vere, "Vestis virum facit," ut aiunt!
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    • 2021, David J. White, “Ovationes Anni Salutis MMXXI”, in The Classical Journal[3], volume 117, number 2, →ISSN, page 224:
      Postea in civitatem Stellae Unicae migravit, in regionem frequentissimam cuius Bubulculi—qui "Turma Americana" olim appellabantur—atque Exploratores vel Lustrores12 omnibus bene noti sunt, quibus quidem socius noster imprimis favet, quod ludus basipilae ei in potissimum cordi est.
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Declension

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First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative basipila
Genitive basipilae
Dative basipilae
Accusative basipilam
Ablative basipilā
Vocative basipila