The corpus record — Latin

thyrsus

thyrsus · m

a stalk

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Where it lives

Eclogues 9 · 19.83/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 18.25/10k
Achilleis 8 · 11.1/10k
Oedipus 3 · 5.06/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
Thebais 11 · 1.76/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. thyrsus — Lewis & Short

thyrsus, i, m., = qu/rsos,

I a stalk, stem of a plant.

I Lit., Plin. 19, 8, 39, § 129; 25, 8, 41, § 81; 26, 8, 33, § 51; Suet. Aug. 77; Col. 10, 370.—

II Transf.

A A staff twined round with ivy and vine-shoots, borne by Bacchus and the Bacchantes; the Bacchic staff, thyrsus, Hor. C. 2, 19, 8; Ov. M. 3, 542; 3, 712; 4, 7; 9, 641; 11, 28; Stat. Th. 9, 614; Sen. Herc. Fur. 904; id. Oedip. 628 al. — Hence, poet. transf.,

B A thorn, goad: acri Percussit thyrso laudis spes magna meum cor, Lucr. 1, 923; Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 43.

2. thyrsus — Walde–Hofmann

thyrsus, - m. „Stengel; der mit Efeu und Weinlaub umwundene Stab des Bakchus und der Bakchantinnen* (seit Verg., vlt. und rom. zursus; vgl thyrsiculus seit Ven. Fort., thyrsiger seit Naev.: entl. aus gr. 8opcoc ds. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. thyrsus, p. 1588]

In the wild

Thyrsis Vergil, Eclogues 7
thyrsis Silius Italicus, Punica 3.393
thyrsos Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.190
thyrsos Statius, Thebais 12.623
thyrsi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.10.p5
thyrso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p6

6 of 93 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. thyrsus (scan p. 715; entry #11858).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. thyrsus (scan p. 1588; entry #3010).

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