Given name · Ancient Greek · Greek
Τήρης
“combatant, competitor”
Τήρης (Tḗrēs) is a masculine given name from Thracian, meaning “combatant, competitor.” It is used in Ancient Greek.
Ancient Greek and GreekWritten in Greek script. In English: Teres.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Thracian *Tērēs (-, “combatant, competitor”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Τήρης’s family of names
In Greek usage, Τήρης has a conventional equivalent in the English form TERES. In Ancient Greek usage, Τήρης can be written in the Roman alphabet as Tḗrēs. In Ancient Greek usage, Τήρης has a transliteration in Tḗrēs.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Τήρης
- Teres Ifirst king of Odrysian state
- Teres IIking of the Odrysians in middle Thrace from 351 BC to 342 BC, succeeding his father, Amatokos II
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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