Torso
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late 18th century: from Italian, literally ‘stalk, stump’, from Latin thyrsus (see thyrsus).
wiktionary
From Italian torso, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος(thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of thyrse and thyrsus.
etymonline
torso (n.)
1797, "trunk of a statue," from Italian torso "trunk of a statue," originally "stalk, stump," from Vulgar Latin *tursus, from Latin thyrsus "stalk, stem," from Greek thyrsos (see thyrsus). As "trunk of a person" by 1865. Earlier, in the statuary sense, in French form torse (1620s).
