bachanalia

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Bacchānālia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.xaˈna.lja/

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• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: ba‧cha‧na‧lia

Noun

bachanalia nvir pl (diminutive bachanalijka)

1. (Greek mythology) Bacchanalia (a feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus)

   Hypernym: obrzęd

2. (be extension, literary) Bacchanalia (a drunken feast)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:impreza

Declension

Declension of bachanalia

	plural
nominative	bachanalia
genitive	bachanaliów
dative	bachanaliom
accusative	bachanalia
instrumental	bachanaliami
locative	bachanaliach
vocative	bachanalia

Related terms

adjectives

• bachancki
• bachiczny
• bachusowy

 

nouns

• bachandria
• bachant
• bachantka
• Bachus

 

verbs

• bachować
• bachusować

 

Further reading

• bachanalia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bachanalia in Polish dictionaries at PWN