bacchor Latin · revision 32589

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc Βάκχος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈbak.kʰɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈbak.kor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''bacchor''' (present infinitive bacchārī, perfect active bacchātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a verb [[af|la|Bacchus|-ō]], from the name of the god of wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares [[grc|βακχεύω|tr=bakkheúō|t=to celebrate the rites of Bacchus]], and Priscian already derived it from Bacchus.^(TLL) [[m|la|Bacchus]] is borrowed from [[grc|Βάκχος|tr=Bákkhos]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: in the ''Amphitruo'' someone warns against opposing a Bacchante in her frenzy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to celebrate the rites of Bacchus, and Catullus has someone gazing out like the stone statue of a Bacchante.^(Lewis & Short 1879) More often it is to rave like a Bacchante: Varro uses it of Ajax cutting down a wood in his madness, and Virgil of the prophetess who raves in her cave.^(OLD 2012) Horace applies it to a raging wind, and the ''Ciris'' to a girl roaming wildly through the city.^(OLD 2012) A passive use means to be filled with Bacchic revels, of a grove.^(OLD 2012) Augustine has an active form ⟨bacchābat⟩.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to revel, rant, be raving wild.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a Bacchante.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of Ajax raging.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of a Bacchante's statue.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a raving prophetess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a raging wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To celebrate the rites of [[Bacchus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of a place, to be filled with Bacchic revels.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|rave]] like a Bacchante, rage; to speak in a frenzy, [[m|en|rant]]; of the weather, to rage.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wander in a frenzy; of animals, to run wild.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[bacchābundus]]

+ * [[bacchātim]]

+ * [[bacchātiō]]

+ * [[dēbacchor]]

+ * [[perbacchor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[Baccha]]

+ * [[bacchanal|alt=bacchānal]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}