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		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

• 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.