βάκκαρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βάκκαρ (bákkar), βάκχαρ (bákkhar), βάκχαρις (bákkharis)

Etymology

According to a scholium of Aeschylus, the word is from Lydian, whereas Furnée argues for a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bák.ka.ris/ → /ˈβa.ka.ris/ → /ˈva.ka.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bák.ka.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbak.ka.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.ka.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ka.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ka.ris/

Noun

βάκκᾰρῐς • (bákkaris) f (genitive βᾰκκάρῐδος); third declension

1. wild spikenard (Asarum europaeum)
2. sowbread (Cyclamen hederifolium)
3. red everlasting (Helichrysum sanguineum)
4. unguent made with wild spikenard

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βᾰ́κκᾰρῐς; τῆς βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰ́κκᾰρῐς hē bákkaris	τὼ βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδε tṑ bakkáride	αἱ βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδες hai bakkárides
Genitive	τῆς βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδος tês bakkáridos	τοῖν βᾰκκᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn bakkarídoin	τῶν βᾰκκᾰρῐ́δων tôn bakkarídōn
Dative	τῇ βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδῐ têi bakkáridi	τοῖν βᾰκκᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn bakkarídoin	ταῖς βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐσῐ / βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐσῐν taîs bakkárisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδᾰ tḕn bakkárida	τὼ βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδε tṑ bakkáride	τᾱ̀ς βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδᾰς tā̀s bakkáridas
Vocative	βᾰ́κκᾰρῐς bákkaris	βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδε bakkáride	βᾰκκᾰ́ρῐδες bakkárides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: baccar

Further reading

• “βάκκαρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βάκκαρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βάκκαρις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN