It was loaned into Old Latin via Etruscan as , in Classical Latin taking the form , the Roman triumph where the victorious general takes the role of Dionysus as leader of the procession, later associated with rather than Dionysus. Arrian traces the custom to Alexander the Great when he states (Anabasis 6b.28): The term's etymology is connected with the word "fig leaf" by Aemilius Luetcke (1829) who refers to the epithet "of the fig tree" of Dionysus.