The corpus record — Latin

Bacchis

Bacchis · f

The name of a woman in the

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Where it lives

Hecyra 44 · 48.81/10k
Heautontimorumenos 30 · 27.3/10k
Bacchides 19 · 19.26/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Bacchis — Lewis & Short

Bacchis, ĭdis, f., = *bakxi/s.

I = 1. Baccha, q. v.—

II The name of a woman in the Hec. and Heaut. of Terence; and, in plur., Bacchides, the name of a comedy of Plautus (derived from the twin sisters, Bacchides, the chief personages of the piece): Bacchides non Bacchides, set Bacchae sunt acerrumae, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 4.

In the wild

6 of 94 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.