bacchans

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbak.kʰãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbak.kans]

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.