The corpus record — Latin

Tereus

Tereus · m

A king of Thrace

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Where it lives

In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Metamorphoses 6 · 0.77/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Tēreus — Lewis & Short

Tēreus, ĕi or ĕos, m., = *threu/s.

I A king of Thrace, husband of Procne, the sister of Philomela, whom he violated, Hyg. Fab. 45; Ov. F. 2, 629; id. M. 6, 497, 6. 615; 6, 635; Mart. 14, 75, 1.—Hence, Tērĕĭdes, ae, m., the offspring of Tereus, i. e. his son Itys, Ov. Ib. 436.—

II The name of a tragedy by Attius, Cic. Att. 16, 2, 3; 16, 5, 1.

In the wild

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.