英语词汇bacchanal的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bacchanal
词源	bacchanal [M16th] This word comes from Bacchus (in Greek Bakkhos), the god of wine. The association with the Bacchanalia [M16th], the Roman festival in honour of the god, with its renowned free-flowing wine and licentious behaviour, gave the sense ‘drunken revelry or orgy’.
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