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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7883012, member: 75937"]That's a very interesting question, because in Greek, it illustrates an uncommon grammatical phenomenon. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dqu%2Frsos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dqu%2Frsos" rel="nofollow">Θύρσος</a> (thyrsos) is a second declension masculine noun in Greek and usually takes the plural θύρσοι (thyrsoi); however, in the later poets, it is a <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heteroclitic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heteroclitic" rel="nofollow">heteroclitic</a> plural, taking the form θύρσα, as if it were a <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=qu%2Frsa&la=greek&can=qu%2Frsa0&prior=o(&d=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=qu/rsos&i=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=qu%2Frsa&la=greek&can=qu%2Frsa0&prior=o(&d=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=qu/rsos&i=1" rel="nofollow">second or third declension neuter</a>. In Latin, thyrsus is a regular second declension masculine, taking the expected plural form, thyrsī.[/QUOTE]