Tereus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τηρεύς (Tēreús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.reu̯s/, [ˈt̪eːrɛu̯s̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.reu̯s/, [ˈt̪ɛːreu̯s]

Proper noun

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

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tēreus
genitive	Tēreī
dative	Tēreō
accusative	Tēreum
ablative	Tēreō
vocative	Tēree

References

• “Tereus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press