• enPR:thŭs,IPA^(key):/ˈðʌs/

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FromMiddle Englishthus,þus, fromOld Englishþus(“thus, in this way, as follows, in this manner, to this extent”), fromProto-West Germanic*þus(“so, thus”), perhaps originally from a variant of the instrumental form ofthis, related toOld Englishþȳs(“by this, with this”),Old Saxonthius(“by this, with this”). Cognate withScotsthus(“thus”),North Frisianthus,West Frisiandus(“thus”),Dutchdus(“thus, so”),Low Germansus(“thus, hence”).

thus (notcomparable)(nowliterary orformal)

1. (manner) Inthis way or manner.

   If you throw the ballthus, as I’m showing you, you’ll have better luck hitting the target.

   • 1879,R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, inThe Amateur Poacher, London:Smith, Elder, & Co., […],→OCLC:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and,thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].

2. (conjunctive)As a result.

   I have all the tools I need;thus, I will be able to fix the car without having to call a mechanic.

   • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:

     I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. Andthus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

   • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:

     Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago.

   • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:

     [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing andthus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.

• (in this way):as such,like so, likethis,so,thusly; See alsoThesaurus:thus
• (as a result):as such,before,consequently,hence,so,therefore; See alsoThesaurus:therefore

thus (uncountable)

1. Alternative form ofthuris

• Hust,STHU,Tush,huts,shut,tush

• tūs

FromAncient Greekθύος(thúos,“burnt offering,holocaust”), fromθύω(thúō).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈtʰuːs/,[ˈt̪ʰuːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈtus/,[ˈt̪us]

thūs n (genitivethūris);third declension

1. incense,frankincense
   • 86CE – 103CE,Martial,Epigrammata13.4:

     Sērus ut aetheriae Germānicus imperet aulae
     utque diū terrīs, dā piatūra Iovī.

     So that Germanicus might rule the heavenly palaces later
     and for a long time the earth, give piousincense to Jupiter.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• libanus(Late Latin)

• → Middle Irish:túis
  • Irish:túis
• ⇒ Portuguese:turiferar

• thȳmiāma
• thuribulum

• “thus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “thus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "thus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• thus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

thus

1. Alternative form ofþus