different between maenad vs bacchante

English

Etymology

From Latin maenas (“bacchant”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (mainás, “raving, frantic”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (maínomai, “be furious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?.næd/

Noun

maenad (plural maenads or maenades)

1. (Greek mythology) A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 30

     Blanche Stroeve was in the cruel grip of appetite. Perhaps she hated Strickland still, but she hungered for him, and everything that had made up her life till then became of no account. She ceased to be a woman, complex, kind and petulant, considerate and thoughtless; she was a Maenad. She was desire.

2. An excessively wild or emotional woman.

Derived terms

• maenadic
• maenadism

Translations

Anagrams

• anadem

English

Alternative forms

• Bacchante

Noun

bacchante (plural bacchantes)

1. a priestess of Bacchus
2. a female bacchanal

Synonyms

• maenad

Related terms

• bacchant

References

• bacchante in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.k??t/
• Homophone: bacchantes

Noun

bacchante f (plural bacchantes)

1. bacchante
2. (especially in plural) moustache

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bak?k?an.te/, [bäk?k?än?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bak?kan.te/, [b?k?k?n?t??]

Participle

bacchante

1. ablative masculine singular of bacch?ns
2. ablative feminine singular of bacch?ns
3. ablative neuter singular of bacch?ns