Bacenis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /baˈkeː.nis/, [bäˈkeːnɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /baˈt͡ʃe.nis/, [bäˈt͡ʃɛːnis]
Proper noun
[edit]Bacēnis f sg (genitive Bacēnis); third declension
- A great forest in ancient Germania, mentioned by Julius Caesar.
- doubtless Buchonia, in Hesse.
- doubtless the western part of the Thuringian Forest, in Fulda.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.10:
- Illi imperata faciunt et paucis diebus intermissis referunt: Suebos omnes, posteaquam certiores nuntii de exercitu Romanorum venerint, cum omnibus suis sociorumque copiis, quas coegissent, penitus ad extremos fines se recepisse; silvam esse ibi infinita magnitudine, quae appellatur Bacenis; hanc longe introrsus pertinere et pro nativo muro obiectam Cheruscos ab Suebis Suebosque ab Cheruscis iniuriis incursionibusque prohibere: ad eius initium silvae Suebos adventum Romanorum exspectare constituisse.
- They execute the orders, and, a few days having intervened, report that all the Suevi, after certain intelligence concerning the army of the Romans had come, retreated with all their own forces and those of their allies, which they had assembled, to the utmost extremities of their territories: that there is a wood there of very great extent, which is called Bacenis; that this stretches a great way into the interior, and, being opposed as a natural barrier, defends from injuries and incursions the Cherusci against the Suevi, and the Suevi against the Cherusci: that at the entrance of that forest the Suevi had determined to await the coming up of the Romans.
- Illi imperata faciunt et paucis diebus intermissis referunt: Suebos omnes, posteaquam certiores nuntii de exercitu Romanorum venerint, cum omnibus suis sociorumque copiis, quas coegissent, penitus ad extremos fines se recepisse; silvam esse ibi infinita magnitudine, quae appellatur Bacenis; hanc longe introrsus pertinere et pro nativo muro obiectam Cheruscos ab Suebis Suebosque ab Cheruscis iniuriis incursionibusque prohibere: ad eius initium silvae Suebos adventum Romanorum exspectare constituisse.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Bacēnis |
| genitive | Bacēnis |
| dative | Bacēnī |
| accusative | Bacēnem |
| ablative | Bacēne |
| vocative | Bacēnis |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “Bacenis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bacenis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.