theses
- 1Plural of thesis.
The library archives decades of doctoral theses on its upper floors.
Several competing theses about the cause of the collapse circulated among historians.
Note
A plural borrowed whole rather than built in English: Latin thesēs, itself from Greek théseis. It follows the pattern of analyses and hypotheses, where a final -is becomes -es instead of taking an English -s. The plural serves every meaning of thesis: dissertations shelved in a library, competing propositions in an argument, the stages of Hegel's dialectic, and, in music and verse, the accented beats of a measure.
theses is a form of thesis
thesis, noun: A long essay written to establish the validity of a claim, especially one submitted to fulfill the requirements for an academic degree; a dissertation. Full entry
- Forms
- thesistheses plural
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Origin
Borrowed from Latin "thesēs," which comes from Ancient Greek "théseis"; it is the plural form of "thesis."