θίασος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formation like θύρσος (thúrsos). An expression of the Dionysiac religion, and as such suspected of foreign origin: probably Pre-Greek, in spite of older interpretations in Indo-European terms.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰí.a.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰi.a.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθi.a.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθi.a.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.a.sos/
Noun
θῐ́ᾰσος • (thíasos) m (genitive θῐᾰ́σου); second declension
- thiasus, Bacchic revel, rout
- religious guild, confraternity
- (in general) company, troop
- feast, banquet
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ θῐ́ᾰσος ho thíasos |
τὼ θῐᾰ́σω tṑ thiásō |
οἱ θῐ́ᾰσοι hoi thíasoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ θῐᾰ́σου toû thiásou |
τοῖν θῐᾰ́σοιν toîn thiásoin |
τῶν θῐᾰ́σων tôn thiásōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ θῐᾰ́σῳ tôi thiásōi |
τοῖν θῐᾰ́σοιν toîn thiásoin |
τοῖς θῐᾰ́σοις toîs thiásois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν θῐ́ᾰσον tòn thíason |
τὼ θῐᾰ́σω tṑ thiásō |
τοὺς θῐᾰ́σους toùs thiásous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θῐ́ᾰσε thíase |
θῐᾰ́σω thiásō |
θῐ́ᾰσοι thíasoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θιασαρχέω (thiasarkhéō)
- θιασάρχης (thiasárkhēs)
- θιασεία (thiaseía)
- θιασεύω (thiaseúō)
- θιασίτης (thiasítēs)
- θιασιτικός (thiasitikós)
- θιασώδης (thiasṓdēs)
- θιασώτης (thiasṓtēs)
- θιασωτικός (thiasōtikós)
- θιασῶτις (thiasôtis)
Descendants
Further reading
- “θίασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θίασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θίασος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Noun
θίασος • (thíasos) m (plural θίασοι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | θίασος (thíasos) | θίασοι (thíasoi) |
| genitive | θιάσου (thiásou) | θιάσων (thiáson) |
| accusative | θίασο (thíaso) | θιάσους (thiásous) |
| vocative | θίασε (thíase) | θίασοι (thíasoi) |
Related terms
- περιοδεύων θίασος m (periodévon thíasos, “intinerant troupe”)
Further reading
θίασος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
