Βάκχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to Latin bacca (“pearl, beard, olive-berry, berry”); both possibly derive from the name of a Thracian fertility god.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bákʰ.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbak.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβak.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvak.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvak.xos/
Proper noun
Βᾰ́κχος • (Bákkhos) m (genitive Βᾰ́κχου); second declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- Βακχεία (Bakkheía)
- Βακχεῖον (Bakkheîon)
- Βακχεῖος (Bakkheîos)
- Βακχεύειν (Bakkheúein)
- Βάκχευμα (Bákkheuma)
- Βακχεύσιμον (Bakkheúsimon)
- Βακχεύσιμος (Bakkheúsimos)
- Βάκχευσις (Bákkheusis)
- Βάκχη (Bákkhē)
- Βακχιάζειν (Bakkhiázein)
- Βάκχιος (Bákkhios)
Descendants
References
- “Βάκχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Βάκχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Βάκχος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Thracian
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns