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/
Inflection
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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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
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