bacchor

Latin

FWOTD – 28 April 2015

Alternative forms

• baccor

Etymology

From Bacchus +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbak.kʰor/, [ˈbäkːʰɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbak.kor/, [ˈbäkːor]

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 [...].

     [Dido] 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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		bacchārī	bacchātum esse	bacchātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		bacchāns	bacchātus	bacchātūrus	—	—	bacchandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		bacchandī	bacchandō	bacchandum	bacchandō	bacchātum	bacchātū

Derived terms

• bacchābundus
• bacchāns
• bacchātim
• bacchātiō
• dēbacchor
• perbacchor

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.