Bacchanal

See also: bacchanal

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

Declension of Bacchanal [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Bacchanal	die	Bacchanale, Bacchanalien
genitive	eines	des	Bacchanals	der	Bacchanale, Bacchanalien
dative	einem	dem	Bacchanal	den	Bacchanalen, Bacchanalien
accusative	ein	das	Bacchanal	die	Bacchanale, Bacchanalien

Latin

Alternative forms

• Bachānal, Baccānal, Bachīnal, Baccīnal (in codices)
• Bācānal (pre-Classical)

Etymology

Substantivation of apocopated Bacchānāle, nominative neuter singular of Bacchānālis (“pertaining to Bacchus”), see -al.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “the -an- needs some explaining”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /bakˈkʰaː.nal/, [bäkˈkʰäːnäɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bakˈka.nal/, [bäkˈkäːnäl]

Noun

Bacchānal n sg (genitive Bacchānālis); third declension

1. place devoted to Bacchus, where the Bacchanalia where celebrated
2. (rare in the singular) Alternative form of Bacchānālia
   • 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^[sic]·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

Further reading

• “Bacchanal”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bacchanal in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.