different between maenadic vs maenad

English

Etymology

From maenad +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mi??nad?k/, /m???nad?k/

Adjective

maenadic (comparative more maenadic, superlative most maenadic)

1. Of, or pertaining to a maenad; frenzied. [from 19th c.]
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Dionysus, with his Maenadic night-rites, is the body as internal womb-space, tunneled for eating and procreating.

Derived terms

• maenadically

Anagrams

• cadamine, camaenid

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