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English
Etymology
From the Latin Bacchus, from the Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bacchus
- (Roman mythology) Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and vivid social gatherings.
Derived terms
Translations
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bacchus m (genitive Bacchī); second declension
- (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Bacchus
- wine
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.214–215:
- Tum vīctū revocant vīrēs, fūsīque per herbam
implentur veteris Bacchī pinguisque ferīnae.- Then they restore their strength with the provisions, and, stretched on the grass, they fill up on old wine and fat venison.
- the vine
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
“Bacchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Bacchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Bacchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.