bacchic

See also: Bacchic

English

Etymology

From Latin Bacchicus.

Adjective

bacchic (comparative more bacchic, superlative most bacchic)

1. Of or relating to Bacchus.

   Near-synonyms: Dionysiac, Dionysian

2. By extension, drunken.

   Near-synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchian; dionysiac, dionysian

3. (prosody) Relating to a bacchius.

Translations

of or relating to Bacchus

• Catalan: bàquic
• French: bachique (fr)
• Italian: bacchico (it)
• Polish: bachiczny (pl), bachusowy
• Portuguese: báquico
• Spanish: báquico (es)

See also

• dionysiac

References

• “bacchic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.