different between thyrsus vs thyrse

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (thúrsos) via Latin thyrsus and French thyrse. Doublet of thyrsus and torso.

Noun

thyrse (plural thyrses)

1. (botany) A type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes.
   • 1804, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, page 143,

     The Thyrsus *, or Thyrse, is a mode of inflorescence very nearly allied to the panicle, being, in fact, a panicle contracted into an ovate, or egg-shaped form. In the thyrse, the middle footstalks, which are longer, extend horizontally, whilst the upper and lower oes are shorter, and rise up vertically.

   • 1840, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Boughton Kingdon (translator), Vegetable Organography, Volume II, page 24,

     The example of the thyrse of Eugenia leads us to understand several inflorescences which resemble also racemes or panicles; such are the thyrses of the Lilac.

   • 1998, D. W. Stevenson, M. Colella, B. Boom, Rapateaceae, Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber (editors), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume IV: Flowering Plants, Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae), page 417,

     The number of spikelets is variable, and some genera have thyrses with 70 spikelets (Saxofridericia, Spathanthus) or only 1-3 spikelets per inflorescence (Stegolepsis, Monotrema).

2. (archaic) A thyrsus (staff with conical ornament).

Derived terms

• thyrsic
• thyrsiform
• thyrsoid

Translations

Anagrams

• ethyrs

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin thyrsus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????? (thúrsos). Doublet of torse, a borrowing from Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?s/

Noun

thyrse m (plural thyrses)

1. thyrsus
2. thyrse

Descendants

• ? English: thyrse (also via Latin)

Further reading

• “thyrse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

thyrse

1. vocative singular of thyrsus