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
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..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Elaeam redit. inde Phocaeam petentes ad insulam, quam Bacchium uocant —imminet urbi Phocaeensium—, appulerunt et, quibus ante abstinuerant..."
