thiasus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek θίασος (thíasos).

thiasus (plural thiasi)

1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A group of singers and dancers assembled to celebrate the festival of one of the gods.

• thiasarch
• thiasote

• shiatsu, situash

• thyasus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θῐ́ᾰσος (thĭ́ăsos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰi.a.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪iː.a.s̬us]

thiasus m (genitive thiasī); second declension

1. A group of singers and dancers assembled to celebrate the festival of one of the gods, especially Bacchus

Second-declension noun.

• “thiasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “thiasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thiasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “thiasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers