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|Definition=ὁ, in late Poets with heterocl. pl. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> θύρσα <span class="title">AP</span>6.158 (Sabin.): —<b class="b2">wand wreathed in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the top</b>, carried by the devotees of Dionysus, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>80</span> (lyr.), <span class="title">SIG</span>1109.138, <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Spir.</span>2.9</span>, etc.; also of the [[devotees]] themselves, Sch.<span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span> 261</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[κλάδος]], [[ῥάβδος]], Hsch. (Prob. a loan-word.)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">the thyrsos-wand</b>, wreathe with ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the top (E.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">θυρσο-φόρος</b>, <b class="b3">ἄ-θυρσος</b> (E.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. [[θυρσίον]] (Hero), [[θυρσάριον]] (Plu.); plant name [[θύρσιον]] (Ps.-Dsc.), [[θύρσις]] (Cyran.), <b class="b3">θυρσ-ίνη</b> and <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> (Dsc., s. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 50; the last also name of a stone, Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 55); [[θυρσίων]] name of a dolphinlike fish (Ath., Plin.; s. W.-Hofmann s. [[tursiō]]). Denomin.: [[θυρσάζω]] <b class="b2">flourish the th.</b> (Ar. Lys. 1313; Lacon. ptc. [[θυρσαδδωᾶν]] = <b class="b3">-αζουσῶν</b>), [[θυρσόω]] <b class="b2">use as th.</b> (D. S.). - Here also [[θυρξεύς]] surn. of Apollon in Achaia (Paus. 7, 21, 13)?; s. Boßhardt Die Nomina auf <b class="b3">-ευς</b> 77.<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Anat.<br />Etymology: Loan from Anatolia, cf. Hier. Luw. <b class="b2">tuwarsa-</b> [[vine]] (Laroche BSL 51 p. XXXIIIf., Forbes Glotta 36, 271f.). S. Heubeck, Praegraeca 80.