1. τύρσις · tyrsis — Beekes
tower, keep, turret; palace, castle, fortified town
The corpus record
τύρσις
tursis
tower, keep, turret; palace, castle, fortified town
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Anabasis 7 · 1.25/10k
- Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Senses
2. τύρσις · tyrsis — Chantraine
ιος, parfois -ἰδος, nom
3. τύρσις · tyrsis — Frisk
105, -ıdoc, pl
4. τύρσις · tyrsis — LSJ
tower, tower on a wall, bastion, walled city
Attestations
- τύρσεις · tyrseis Xenophon, Hellenica 3.2.15 (DIORISIS sentence 956)
- τύρσεων · tyrseōn Xenophon, Hellenica 4.7.6 (DIORISIS sentence 1714)
- τύρσεις · tyrseis Xenophon, Anabasis 4.4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1688)
- τύρσεις · tyrseis Xenophon, Anabasis 5.2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2107)
- τύρσεις · tyrseis Xenophon, Anabasis 5.2.15 (DIORISIS sentence 2127)
- τύρσεις · tyrseis Xenophon, Anabasis 5.2.27 (DIORISIS sentence 2157)
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Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan pp. 1571-1572; entry #6192 Review: Under source audit
- scan p. 1166; entry #8187 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 1920-1921; entry #5793 Review: Under source audit
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