Bacchanal

Bacchanal (comparative more Bacchanal, superlative most Bacchanal)

1. Alternative form of bacchanal

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

1. bacchanalia

• Bachānal, Baccānal, Bachīnal, Baccīnal (in codices)
• Bācānal (ante-classical)

From Baccha.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bakˈkʰaː.nal/, [bäkˈkʰäːnäɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bakˈka.nal/, [bäkˈkäːnäl]

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.

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