different between bacchus vs thyrsus

English

Etymology

From Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrse and torso.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????s?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???s?s/

Noun

thyrsus (plural thyrsi)

1. 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.

   • As good to grow on graves / As twist about a thyrsus.
2. (botany) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

Translations

Anagrams

• thrussy

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (thúrsos, “plant-stalk, Bacchic staff”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?yr.sus/, [?t???rs??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tir.sus/, [?t?irsus]

Noun

thyrsus m (genitive thyrs?); second declension

1. thyrsus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• >? Catalan: tros
• ? English: thyrse (also via French), thyrsus
• ? French: thyrse
• Italian: torso (“torso”), tirso
  • ? English: torso
    • ? Welsh: torso
  • ? French: torse
  • ? Spanish: torso
• >? 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, 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 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