Italian: in some cases from Bassus, a family name of the
Republican period, from Latin bassus ‘thickset’, i.e. wide as
opposed to tall; in others from a medieval nickname Basso
meaning ‘short’, ‘low’, a derivative of bassus.Catalan: variant of Besso.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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