bacchans

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of bacchor (“celebrate the festival rites of Bacchus; revel”).

Pronunciation

Participle

bacchāns (genitive bacchantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. celebrating the festival rites of Bacchus
  2. revelling, raving or ranting like the bacchanals
  3. going, running or roaming about in a wild, raving or furious manner
  4. (of inanimate things) being furious, raging with fury

Declension

Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative bacchāns bacchantēs bacchantia
genitive bacchantis bacchantium
dative bacchantī bacchantibus
accusative bacchantem bacchāns bacchantēs
bacchantīs 		bacchantia
ablative bacchante
bacchantī1 		bacchantibus
vocative bacchāns bacchantēs bacchantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

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