thyrsus
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English
Etymology
From Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrse and torso.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈθɜːsəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɜɹsəs/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səs
Noun
thyrsus (plural thyrsi)
- A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
- 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poet's Calendar
- In my hand I bear / The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Second Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1857, →OCLC:
- As good to grow on graves / As twist about a thyrsus.
- 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:
- The champagne was done, and she upturned the bottle to hold it like a thyrsus.
- 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poet's Calendar
- (botany) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
Derived terms
Translations
staff
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “plant-stalk, Bacchic staff”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtʰyr.sus/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtir.sus/,
Noun
thyrsus m (genitive thyrsī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | thyrsus | thyrsī |
| Genitive | thyrsī | thyrsōrum |
| Dative | thyrsō | thyrsīs |
| Accusative | thyrsum | thyrsōs |
| Ablative | thyrsō | thyrsīs |
| Vocative | thyrse | thyrsī |
Descendants
- >? Catalan: tros, troç
- → English: thyrse (also via French), thyrsus
- → French: thyrse
- Italian: torso (“torso”), tirso
- >? Occitan: tros
- Portuguese: troço
- >? Spanish: trozo
References
- “thyrsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “thyrsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- thyrsus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- thyrsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “thyrsus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “thyrsus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “thyrsus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “thyrsus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “thyrsus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin