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From the Latin Bacchus, from the Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

Bacchus

  1. (Roman mythology) Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and vivid social gatherings.

the Roman god of wine

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

Bacchus m (genitive Bacchī); second declension

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Bacchus
  2. wine
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.214–215:

      Tum vīctū revocant vīrēs, fūsīque per herbam
      implentur veteris Bacchī pinguisque ferīnae.
      Then they restore their strength with the provisions, and, stretched on the grass, they fill up on old wine and fat venison.
  3. the vine

Second-declension noun.

Bacchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

  • Bacchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Bacchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.