Tereus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Τηρεύς (Tēreús).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Tēre͡us m sg (genitive Tēreī); second declension

  1. Tereus, king of Thrace and husband to Procne
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.15:
      Ipse sedens solio Tereus sublimis avito / vescitur inque suam sua viscera congerit alvum.
      He himself, sitting [in] the ancestral chair, lofty Tereus, eats and lavishes his own stomach [with] his own flesh.

Declension

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Tēreus
Genitive Tēreī
Dative Tēreō
Accusative Tēreum
Ablative Tēreō
Vocative Tēree

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