θύρσος

Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 19 January 2015

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 

Noun

θῠ́ρσος • (thúrsos) m (genitive θῠ́ρσου); second declension

  1. a wand wreathed in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the top, carried by the devotees of Dionysus
  2. the devotees themselves
  3. Hesychius defines it as κλάδος (kládos, “stick, branch”), ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “stick, rod”)

Inflection
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.

Descendants
  • → Latin: thyrsus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading
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