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noun, masculine

Thalys

/ta.lis/

noun, masculine/ta.lis/

a former West European high-speed train service now merged with Eurostar.

1990s. Invented name for purposes of ease of pronunciation and euphony, the suffixes -ys and -is being popular in brand names (cf. Editis, Euridis, Novartis, Stellantis, etc).

Thalys — French Dictionary | Passage