The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΒάκχος
- Latin · borrowed frombacchantem
- English todaybacchant
Borrowed from Latin bacchantem, present active participle of bacchor (“to celebrate rites of Bacchus; to revel”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).
Words from the same roots
Ancient GreekΒάκχος all →
Bacchusbacchanalia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.