θίασος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like θύρσος (thúrsos). An expression of the Dionysiac religion, and as such suspected of foreign origin: probably Pre-Greek, in spite of older interpretations in Indo-European terms.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰí.a.sos/ → /ˈθi.a.sos/ → /ˈθi.a.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰí.a.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰi.a.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.a.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.a.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.a.sos/

Noun

θῐ́ᾰσος • (thíasos) m (genitive θῐᾰ́σου); second declension

1. thiasus, Bacchic revel, rout
2. religious guild, confraternity
3. (in general) company, troop
4. feast, banquet

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θῐ́ᾰσος; τοῦ θῐᾰ́σου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θῐ́ᾰσος ho thíasos	τὼ θῐᾰ́σω tṑ thiásō	οἱ θῐ́ᾰσοι hoi thíasoi
Genitive	τοῦ θῐᾰ́σου toû thiásou	τοῖν θῐᾰ́σοιν toîn thiásoin	τῶν θῐᾰ́σων tôn thiásōn
Dative	τῷ θῐᾰ́σῳ tôi thiásōi	τοῖν θῐᾰ́σοιν toîn thiásoin	τοῖς θῐᾰ́σοις toîs thiásois
Accusative	τὸν θῐ́ᾰσον tòn thíason	τὼ θῐᾰ́σω tṑ thiásō	τοὺς θῐᾰ́σους toùs thiásous
Vocative	θῐ́ᾰσε thíase	θῐᾰ́σω thiásō	θῐ́ᾰσοι thíasoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θιασαρχέω (thiasarkhéō)
• θιασάρχης (thiasárkhēs)
• θιασεία (thiaseía)
• θιασεύω (thiaseúō)
• θιασίτης (thiasítēs)
• θιασιτικός (thiasitikós)
• θιασώδης (thiasṓdēs)
• θιασώτης (thiasṓtēs)
• θιασωτικός (thiasōtikós)
• θιασῶτις (thiasôtis)

 

Descendants

• Greek: θίασος (thíasos)
• → Latin: thiasus

Further reading

• “θίασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θίασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θίασος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Noun

θίασος • (thíasos) m (plural θίασοι)

1. theatre company, troupe

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	θίασος (thíasos)	θίασοι (thíasoi)
genitive	θιάσου (thiásou)	θιάσων (thiáson)
accusative	θίασο (thíaso)	θιάσους (thiásous)
vocative	θίασε (thíase)	θίασοι (thíasoi)

Related terms

• περιοδεύων θίασος m (periodévon thíasos, “intinerant troupe”)

Further reading

• θίασος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el