bacchium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →bacchia, bacchiae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
kind of drinking goblet/bowl;
gen. pl. - Entry →bacchius, bacchii:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Poetry
metrical foot of three syllables, either long-long-short or short-long-long;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dubitavi", nisi potius hos esse volumus dactylum et bacchium. duo spondii non fere se iungi patiuntur, quae..." - T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Elaeam redit. inde Phocaeam petentes ad insulam, quam Bacchium uocant —imminet urbi Phocaeensium—, appulerunt et, quibus ante abstinuerant..."
