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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
- IPA(key): /tʰí.a.sos/ → /ˈθi.a.sos/ → /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
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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)
- theatre company, troupe
Declension
- περιοδεύων θίασος m (periodévon thíasos, “intinerant troupe”)
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