thyrsus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrse, torse, and torso. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈθɜːsəs/ (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. (botany) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut. ==== Derived terms ==== thyrsiform thyrsoid ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === thrussy == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “plant-stalk, Bacchic staff”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʰyr.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtir.sus] === Noun === thyrsus m (genitive thyrsī); second declension thyrsus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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[1] “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