Tereus

Tereus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τηρεύς (Tēreús)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.reu̯s/, [ˈt̪eːrɛu̯s̠]
• (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.

Case	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