Bacchanal

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English

Adjective

Bacchanal (comparative more Bacchanal, superlative most Bacchanal)

  1. Alternative form of bacchanal

German

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aːl

Noun

Bacchanal n (strong, genitive Bacchanals, plural Bacchanale or Bacchanalien)

  1. bacchanalia

Declension

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Baccha.

Pronunciation

Noun

Bacchānal n sg (genitive Bacchānālis); third declension (chiefly plural only)

  1. Bacchanalia
    • 183 BCE, CIL I2 581 3–6, in Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, volume I fascicle 2, Ernst Lommatzch & Theodor Mommsen (editors), Berlin, 1918, page 437:
      NEIQVIS·EORVM·SACANAL·HABVISE·VELET·SEI·QVES
      ESENT·QVEI·SIBEI·DEICERENT·NECESVS·ESE·BACANAL·HABERE·EEIS·VTEI·AD·PR·VRBANVM
      ROMAM·VENIRENT·DEQVE·EEIS·REBVS·VBEI·EORVM·VER[B]A·AVDITA·ESENT·VTEI·SENATVS
      NOSTER·DECERNERET·DVM·NE·MINVS·SENATOR[I]BVS·C·ADESENT·QVOM·EA·RE·COSOLORETVR
      Let no one of them hold Bacchanalia. If anybody
      says that it's necessary for them to hold Bacchanalia, let them come to Rome
      to the urban prefect and, when his words regarding the affair have been heard, let our
      senate decide, provided that no less than 100 senators are present when that matter is discussed.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), singular only.

singular
nominative Bacchānal
genitive Bacchānālis
dative Bacchānālī
accusative Bacchānal
ablative Bacchānālī
vocative Bacchānal

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