Given name
Tērēs
“to tear, tear apart”
Tērēs is a masculine given name from Proto-Indo-European, meaning “to tear, tear apart.” It is used in Thracian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tērēs’s family of names
In Thracian usage, Tērēs shares a linguistic root with the Ancient Greek form Δῆρις.
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