thesis

Borrowed from Latin thesis, from Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθiːsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

thesis (plural theses)

1. A statement supported by arguments.
2. A written essay, especially one submitted for a university degree.
   • Goldsmith

     I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them.

3. (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
4. (music) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; the opposite of arsis.
5. (poetry) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
6. (poetry) The part of the metrical foot upon which such a depression falls.

• dissertation

• thesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• thesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Heists, Sethis, heists, shiest, shites, sithes, thises

From Latin thesis, from Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

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thesis f (plural theses or thesissen, diminutive thesisje n)

1. thesis

   Synonyms: dissertatie, proefschrift

From Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰe.sis/, [ˈtʰɛ.sɪs]

thesis f (genitive thesis); third declension

1. thesis

Third declension.

• thesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette