thesis

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈθiːsɪs/; SAMPA: /"Ti:sIs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

Noun

thesis (plural theses)

1. A statement supported by arguments.
2. A written essay submitted for a university degree.

Derived terms

• master's thesis
• doctoral thesis

Related terms

• antithesis
• hypothesis
• prothesis
• prosthesis
• synthesis

Translations

statement supported by arguments

Czech: teze (cs) f. Danish: tesis (da) c., tese (da) c. Dutch: these (nl) Finnish: teesi (fi), väite (fi) French: thèse (fr) f. German: These (de) f. Italian: tesi (it) f., tema (it) f. Japanese: 論題 (ja) (rondai), 主張 (ja) (shuchō), テーゼ (ja) (tēze), 定立 (ja) (teiritsu)

Norwegian: tese (no) m. Polish: teza (pl) f. Portuguese: tese (pt) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: те́за (sh) f. Roman: téza (sh) f. Spanish: tesis (es) f. Turkish: tez (tr)

written essay submitted for a university degree

Chinese: Mandarin: 論文 (cmn), 论文 (cmn) (lùnwén) Czech: diplomová práce (cs) f. Danish: afhandling (da) c., disputats (da) c. Dutch: proefschrift (nl) n., scriptie (nl) f. Finnish: väitöskirja, opinnäytetyö French: thèse (fr) f. German: Dissertation (de) f. Hebrew: תזה (teza) f. Indonesian: disertasi Italian: tesi (it) f. Japanese: 論文 (ja) (ronbun) Lithuanian: disertacija (lt)

Norwegian: Bokmål: avhandling (no) m. and f. Nynorsk: avhandling (nn) f. Polish: dysertacja (pl) f., praca dyplomowa (pl) f. Portuguese: tese (pt) f. Romanian: teză f. Russian: диссертация (dissertátsija) f. Slovene: disertacija f. Spanish: tesis doctoral f. Swedish: dissertation (sv) c. Thai: วิทยานิพนธ์ (wít-tá-yaa-ní-pon) Vietnamese: đồ án tốt nghiệp

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

Catalan: tesi f.

See also

• dissertation

External links

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

Anagrams

• heists
• shiest
• shites

---

Latin

Noun

thesis (genitive thesis); f, third declension

1. thesis

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	thesis	thesēs
genitive	thesis	thesum
dative	thesī	thesibus
accusative	thesem	thesēs
ablative	these	thesibus
vocative	thesis	thesēs