baconalis

Latin

FWOTD – 9 June 2022

Alternative forms

• baccōnālis

Etymology

bacō +‎ -ālis

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ba.koˈna.lis/, [bäkoˈnäːlis]

Adjective

bacōnālis (neuter bacōnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Medieval Latin) fit for bacon
   • 1190, Hugh, abbot of St Peter's, Ghent, edited by Auguste Van Lokeren, Chartes et documents de l'abbaye de Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin à Gand […] , published 1868, page 200:

     Minutum autem censum, scilicet, […] porcos baconales […] sicut ab antiquo statutum est, terminis suis persoluent.

     However, they will pay the petty tribute, namely, […] pigs for bacon […] , to their districts, as has been determined from of old.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	bacōnālis	bacōnāle		bacōnālēs	bacōnālia
Genitive	bacōnālis			bacōnālium
Dative	bacōnālī			bacōnālibus
Accusative	bacōnālem	bacōnāle		bacōnālēs bacōnālīs	bacōnālia
Ablative	bacōnālī			bacōnālibus
Vocative	bacōnālis	bacōnāle		bacōnālēs	bacōnālia

References

• baconalis in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “baconalis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill