bacanal

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bə.kəˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ba.kaˈnal]

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Noun

bacanal f (plural bacanals)

1. bacchanal

Further reading

• “bacanal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bacanal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bacanal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bacanal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ba.kaˈnaw/ [ba.kaˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.kɐˈnal/ [bɐ.kɐˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.kɐˈnal/ [bɐ.kɐˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.kɐˈna.li/

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: ba‧ca‧nal

Noun

bacanal m (plural bacanais)

1. bacchanal

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bacchanale.

Adjective

bacanal m or n (feminine singular bacanală, masculine plural bacanali, feminine/neuter plural bacanale)

1. bacchanal

Declension

Declension of bacanal

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	bacanal		bacanală		bacanali	bacanale
	definite	bacanalul		bacanala		bacanalii	bacanalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	bacanal		bacanale		bacanali	bacanale
	definite	bacanalului		bacanalei		bacanalilor	bacanalelor

Noun

bacanal f (plural bacanali)

1. bacchanal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bakaˈnal/ [ba.kaˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ba‧ca‧nal

Noun

bacanal f (plural bacanales)

1. bacchanal
   • 1930, Federico García Lorca, Oda a Walt Whitman:

     Que los confundidos, los puros / los clásicos, los señalados, los suplicantes / os cierren las puertas de la bacanal.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “bacanal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024