τύρσις

τύρσις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius)

Etymology

Likely a Mediterranean substrate loan.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈtyr.sis/ → /ˈtir.sis/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtir.sis/

Noun

τύρσις • (túrsis) f (indeclinable)

1. tower

Descendants

• Latin: turris (see there for further descendants)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “Τύρσις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
2. Frisk, Hjalmar (1970), “τύρσις”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 948-49

Further reading

• τύρσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τύρσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τύρσις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter