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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from θύω (thúō, “to sacrifice”) by means of a suffix -θλο-. However, Beekes claims this derivation is inadequate, and argues it is a loan, either from Anatolian or from Pre-Greek. Hardly related to θύρσος (thúrsos, “staff carried by Bacchus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰýs.tʰla/ → /ˈθys.θla/ → /ˈθis.θla/
Noun
θῠ́σθλᾰ • (thústhla) n pl (genitive θῠ́σθλων); second declension
- sacred implements of Bacchic orgies, such as wands and thyrsi
- (by extension) the Bacchic festival itself
- (in general) sacrifice
Declension
References
- “θύσθλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θύσθλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θύσθλα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θύσθλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θύσθλα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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