θύρσος

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 19 January 2015

Probably an Anatolian loanword; compare Luwian [script needed] (tuwarsa, “vine”).[1]

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”)

Second declension of ὁ θῠ́ρσος; τοῦ θῠ́ρσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θῠ́ρσος ho thúrsos	τὼ θῠ́ρσω tṑ thúrsō	οἱ θῠ́ρσοι hoi thúrsoi
Genitive	τοῦ θῠ́ρσου toû thúrsou	τοῖν θῠ́ρσοιν toîn thúrsoin	τῶν θῠ́ρσων tôn thúrsōn
Dative	τῷ θῠ́ρσῳ tôi thúrsōi	τοῖν θῠ́ρσοιν toîn thúrsoin	τοῖς θῠ́ρσοις toîs thúrsois
Accusative	τὸν θῠ́ρσον tòn thúrson	τὼ θῠ́ρσω tṑ thúrsō	τοὺς θῠ́ρσους toùs thúrsous
Vocative	θῠ́ρσε thúrse	θῠ́ρσω thúrsō	θῠ́ρσοι thúrsoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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, page 566

“θύρσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θύρσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θύρσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- thyrsus idem, page 873.

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