bacchinon

Latin

Alternative forms

• bacchinus m

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *baccinum, either from bacca (“vessel”), probably of Gaulish origin, or directly from Gaulish *bakkinon (“cup, wooden bowl”).

Noun

bacchinon n (genitive bacchinī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) basin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	bacchinon	bacchina
genitive	bacchinī	bacchinōrum
dative	bacchinō	bacchinīs
accusative	bacchinon	bacchina
ablative	bacchinō	bacchinīs
vocative	bacchinon	bacchina

Related terms

• bacinus (medieval)

References

• Souter, Alexander (1949) “bacchinon”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎^[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 27