bacchor

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Latin

FWOTD – 28 April 2015

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Bacchus +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

Verb

bacchor (present infinitive bacchārī, perfect active bacchātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

  1. to celebrate the festival or rites of Bacchus
  2. to revel, rave or rant like the bacchanals
  3. to go, run or roam about in a wild, raving, raging or furious manner
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.300–301:
      Saevit inops animī, tōtamque incēnsa per urbem / bacchātur .
      raves out of her mind, and having become agitated, all through the city she roams wildly .
      (So begins the simile of Dido behaving like a bacchante or bacchanal; i.e., her people see their queen overcome with unrestrained emotion.)
  4. (of inanimate things) to be furious, rage with fury

Conjugation

   Conjugation of bacchor (first conjugation, deponent)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present bacchor bacchāris,
bacchāre 		bacchātur bacchāmur bacchāminī bacchantur
imperfect bacchābar bacchābāris,
bacchābāre 		bacchābātur bacchābāmur bacchābāminī bacchābantur
future bacchābor bacchāberis,
bacchābere 		bacchābitur bacchābimur bacchābiminī bacchābuntur
perfect bacchātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect bacchātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect bacchātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present baccher bacchēris,
bacchēre 		bacchētur bacchēmur bacchēminī bacchentur
imperfect bacchārer bacchārēris,
bacchārēre 		bacchārētur bacchārēmur bacchārēminī bacchārentur
perfect bacchātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect bacchātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — bacchāre — — bacchāminī —
future — bacchātor bacchātor — — bacchantor
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present bacchārī — bacchāns —
future bacchātūrum esse — bacchātūrus bacchandus
perfect bacchātum esse — bacchātus —
future perfect bacchātum fore — — —
perfect potential bacchātūrum fuisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
bacchandī bacchandō bacchandum bacchandō bacchātum bacchātū

Derived terms

References

  • “bacchor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “bacchor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bacchor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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