The corpus record — Latin

Euhan

Euhan · m

a surname of Bacchus

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Where it lives

Silvae 8 · 3.19/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Euhan — Lewis & Short

Euhan (cf. Lach. ad Euan, Evan, as in many edd.), m., = *eu)a/n,

Lucr. 5, 743; also, Prisc. 1, 29; not

I a surname of Bacchus, Lucr. 5, 742; Ov. M. 4, 15; Mart. Cap. 8, § 804.—Hence, euhans, antis (cf. Gr. eu)a/zwn), adj., crying Euhan! an epithet of the Bacchantes, Cat. 64, 391; Sil. 1, 101; Prop. 2, 3, 18.—Poet. with acc.: euhantes orgia, celebrating the rites of Bacchus with the cry Euhan! Verg. A. 6, 517.

In the wild

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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