Bacchanal

Bacchanal (comparative more Bacchanal, superlative most Bacchanal)

1. Alternative form of bacchanal.

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• Rhymes: -aːl

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

1. bacchanalia

• Bachānal, Baccānal, Bachīnal, Baccīnal (in codices)
• Bācānal (pre-Classical)

Substantivation of apocopated Bacchānāle, nominative neuter singular of Bacchānālis (“pertaining to Bacchus”), see -al.

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bakˈkʰaː.naɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [bakˈkaː.nal]

Bacchānal n sg (genitive Bacchānālis); third declension

1. place devoted to Bacchus, where the Bacchanalia where celebrated
2. (rare in the singular) alternative form of Bacchānālia
   • 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.

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

• “Bacchanal”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bacchanal in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.