bacc

See also: B.Acc.

English

Noun

bacc (plural baccs)

1. Clipping of baccalaureate.
   • 2004, Malaika Stoll, Best 162 Medical Schools 2005 Edition‎, page 50:

     Other post-bacc programs apply students' course work toward a master's degree. Tina decided not to enter an organized post-bacc program.

   • 2010, Kate Hewitt, The Greek Tycoon's Reluctant Bride‎, page 152:

     I received my Bacc through an online correspondence course.

   • 2013, Carleen Eaton, Getting into Medical School For Dummies‎:

     This policy puts a bacc-MD student who realizes that she may prefer another medical school that isn't part of the combined program in a tough position: Stick with the school that's the sure thing, knowing that it's not ideal for her, or relinquish her reserved seat to take her chances as an applicant.

Derived terms

• post-bacc

Anagrams

• BCCA

Middle English

Noun

bacc

1. alternative form of bak (“back”)

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bac

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bakkos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbak/

Noun

bacc m (genitive baicc, nominative plural baicc)

1. hoe, mattock

Declension

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	bacc	baccL	baiccL
vocative	baicc	baccL	baccuH
accusative	baccN	baccL	baccuH
genitive	baiccL	bacc	baccN
dative	baccL	baccaib	baccaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

• c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 52^a14
  • bacc [translating ligo]

    hoe, mattock

• c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 62^b10
  • bacc [translating ligo] · búana fínime

    a hoe: for harvesting vines

Descendants

• Middle Irish: bac (“angle, corner; hindrance”)
  • Irish: bac
  • Manx: bac
  • Scottish Gaelic: bac

Mutation

Mutation of bacc

radical	lenition	nasalization
bacc	bacc pronounced with /β-/	mbacc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bacc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language