See also: bacchanal

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Adjective

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Bacchanal (comparative more Bacchanal, superlative most Bacchanal)

  1. Alternative form of bacchanal

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  • Rhymes: -aːl

Noun

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Bacchanal n (strong, genitive Bacchanals, plural Bacchanale or Bacchanalien)

  1. bacchanalia

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Baccha.

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Noun

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Bacchānal n sg (genitive Bacchānālis); third declension (chiefly plural only)

  1. Bacchanalia
    • 183 BCE, CIL I2 581 3–6, in Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, volume I fascicle 2, Ernst Lommatzch & Theodor Mommsen (editors), Berlin, 1918, page 437:
      NEIQVIS·EORVM·SACANAL[sic]·HABVISE·VELET·SEI·QVES
      ESENT·QVEI·SIBEI·DEICERENT·NECESVS·ESE·BACANAL·HABERE·EEIS·VTEI·AD·PR·VRBANVM
      ROMAM·VENIRENT·DEQVE·EEIS·REBVS·VBEI·EORVM·VER[B]A·AVDITA·ESENT·VTEI·SENATVS
      NOSTER·DECERNERET·DVM·NE·MINVS·SENATOR[I]BVS·C·ADESENT·QVOM·EA·RE·COSOLORETVR
      Let no one of them hold Bacchanalia. If anybody
      says that it's necessary for them to hold Bacchanalia, let them come to Rome
      to the urban prefect and, when his words regarding the affair have been heard, let our
      senate decide, provided that no less than 100 senators are present when that matter is discussed.

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Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Bacchānal
Genitive Bacchānālis
Dative Bacchānālī
Accusative Bacchānal
Ablative Bacchānālī
Vocative Bacchānal

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