The Basics and Acidity of compounds.

I was considering what it meant to have either measure on the pH scale and considered there must be a reason we call basics and acids a separate word from covalent and ionic besides a general need to discern the meaning and what it might imply about the mechanics. As far as I can reason it is a means of portraying overlapping covalent bond fields and ionic fields that ultimately are more potent than a simple single atom or ions charge to do so where covalent is basic and ionic is acidic.