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Yes. The word thyrsus is a Scrabble US word. The word thyrsus is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word thyrsus is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

THYRSUS,

6-letter words (1 found)

HURSTS,

5-letter words (11 found)

HURST,HURTS,HUSSY,RUSHY,RUSTS,RUSTY,RUTHS,SHUTS,TRUSS,TUSHY,YURTS,

4-letter words (14 found)

HURT,HUSS,HUTS,RHUS,RUSH,RUST,RUTH,RUTS,RYUS,SHUT,THRU,THUS,TUSH,YURT,

3-letter words (12 found)

HUT,RHY,RUT,RYU,SHY,STY,SUR,SUS,THY,TRY,UTS,YUS,

2-letter words (7 found)

SH,ST,UH,UR,US,UT,YU,

You can make 46 words from thyrsus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of thyrsus

thyrsus

Etymology

From Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrse and torso.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈθɜːsəs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɚsəs/
  • Rhymes: -ɜːsəs, -ə(ɹ)səs

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.
  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 θύρσος (thúrsos, “plant-stalk, Bacchic staff”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtʰyr.sus/, [ˈt̪ʰʏrs̠ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtir.sus/, [ˈt̪irsus]

Noun

thyrsus m (genitive thyrsī); second declension

  1. thyrsus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • >? Catalan: tros, troç
  • → English: thyrse (also via French), thyrsus
  • → French: thyrse
  • Italian: torso (“torso”), tirso
    • → English: torso
      • → Welsh: torso
    • → French: torse
    • → Portuguese: torso, tirso
    • → Spanish: torso, tirso
  • >? 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 and Roman 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

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