bacanal

Catalan

Noun

bacanal f (plural bacanals)

1. bacchanal

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ba.kaˈnaw/ [ba.kaˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.kɐˈnal/ [bɐ.kɐˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.kɐˈnal/ [bɐ.kɐˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.kɐˈna.li/

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: ba‧ca‧al

Noun

bacanal m (plural bacanais)

1. bacchanal

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bacchanale.

Adjective

bacanal m or n (feminine singular bacanală, masculine plural bacanali, feminine and neuter plural bacanale)

1. bacchanal

Declension

Declension of bacanal

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	bacanal		bacanală	bacanali	bacanale
	definite	bacanalul		bacanala	bacanalii	bacanalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	bacanal		bacanale	bacanali	bacanale
	definite	bacanalului		bacanalei	bacanalilor	bacanalelor

Noun

bacanal f (plural bacanali)

1. bacchanal

Spanish

Noun

bacanal f (plural bacanales)

1. bacchanal
   • 1930, Federico García Lorca, Oda a Walt Whitman:

     Que los confundidos, los puros / los clásicos, los señalados, los suplicantes / os cierren las puertas de la bacanal.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “bacanal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014