bacchans

== Latin == === Etymology === Present active participle of bacchor (“celebrate the festival rites of Bacchus; revel”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbak.kʰãːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbak.kans] === Participle === bacchāns (genitive bacchantis); third-declension one-termination participle celebrating the festival rites of Bacchus revelling, raving or ranting like the bacchanals going, running or roaming about in a wild, raving or furious manner (of inanimate things) being furious, raging with fury ==== Declension ==== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective.