bacchante

English

Alternative forms

• Bacchante

Noun

bacchante (plural bacchantes)

1. a priestess of Bacchus
2. a female bacchanal
   • 1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters‎^[1]:

     “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. […] his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became famous. […] ”

Synonyms

• maenad

Related terms

• bacchant

Translations

a priestess of Bacchus

• Polish: bachantka (pl) f
• Russian: вакха́нка (ru) f (vakxánka)

References

• “bacchante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bacchante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.kɑ̃t/

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• Homophone: bacchantes

Noun

bacchante f (plural bacchantes)

1. bacchante
2. (chiefly in the plural) moustache

Further reading

• “bacchante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /bakˈkʰan.te/, [bäkˈkʰän̪t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bakˈkan.te/, [bäkˈkän̪t̪e]

Participle

bacchante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of bacchāns