“B”

Baccha, -ae, f.: a Maenad, a Bacchante.

Bacchānālis, -e: Bacchic, Bacchanalian; of or pertaining to Bacchus or Dionysus.

Bacchantēs, -ium, f.: Bacchantes (female worshippers of Bacchus).

bacchor, bacchārī, bacchātus sum: to revel, rave (in celebration of the rites of Bacchus).

Bacchus, -ī: Bacchus, another name for Dionysus.

baculum, -ī, n.: a staff, walking stick.

bālō, bālāre, bālāvī, bālātum: to bleat.

balbūtiō, balbūtīre: to stammer, babble. stutter.

barba, -ae, f.: beard.

barbarus, -a, -um: barbarian, uncivilized.

bāsium, -ī, n.: a kiss; bāsiō, bāsiāre, bāsiāvī, bāsiātum: to kiss.

beātus, -a, -um: blessed, happy.

Bellerophōn, -ontis. Bellerophon, son of Glaucus, king of Corinth, rider of Pegasus.

belliger, -gera, -um: warlike, hostile, bellicose.

bellum, -ī, n.: war; bellum gerere = “to wage war”.

bellus, -a, -um: pretty, lovely.

bēlua, -ae, f.: beast, creature; monster.

bene (adv.): well.

beneficium, -ī, n.: kindness, favor.

benevōlens, -entis: kind, meaning well, with good intentions.

benignus, -a, -um: kind, gracious; benignē excipere = “to welcome”.

beō, beāre, beāvī, beātum: to bless.

bestia, -ae, f.: beast.

bestiōlae, -ārum, f.: little creatures; vermin.

betula, -ae, f.: a beech tree.

bibō, bibere, bibī, – : to drink.

bigae, -ārum, f.: a chariot (for a team of two horses).

bilis, is, f.: bile, gall.

binī, -ae, -a: paired, in twos, twinned.

Bithynius, -a, -um: of Bithynia (in northern Anatolia, on the Black Sea).

blanditiae, -ārum, f.: flatteries, blandishments, allurements.

blandus, -a, -um: soothing, pleasant, charming.

blaterō, blaterāre, blaterāvī, blaterātum: to talk nonsensically, babble, prattle, blather.

bonus, -a, -um: good.

bōs, bōvis, m., f.: ox, cow; (pl.) cattle.

bracchium, -ī, n,: arm, the forearm.

brevis, -e: brief, short.

Brīmō, -ūs, or -ōnis, f.: Brimo (an epithet of Persephone).

Bromius, -ī: Bromius (a title of Dionysus).

brūtus, -a, -um: clumsy; dull, brutish, half-witted.

buccae, -ārum, f.: cheeks.

bustum, -ī, n.: a funereal mound, pyre.