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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably an Anatolian loanword; compare Luwian (tuwarsa, “vine”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰýr.sos/ → /ˈθyr.sos/ → /ˈθir.sos/
Noun
θῠ́ρσος • (thúrsos) m (genitive θῠ́ρσου); second declension
- thyrsus, a wand wreathed in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone or a blooming artichoke at the top, carried by the devotees of Dionysus
- the devotees themselves
- Hesychius defines it as κλάδος (kládos, “stick, branch”), ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “stick, rod”)
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Descendants
- → Latin: thyrsus (see there for further descendants)
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