tereun.

/tiːˈruː/

Forms: 1500s teru, 1500s–1600s 1900s– tereu.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Tēreu.

Etymology: < classical Latin Tēreu, vocative of Tēreus (ancient Greek Τηρεύς), name in mythology of the husband of Philomela's sister Procne, and father of Itys; all, according to Ovid Metamorphoses 6. 8, transformed to birds. The nightingale's song was interpreted as a piteous cry to Tereus.

Chiefly poetic.

A feigned note of the nightingale.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Luscinia > luscinia megarhynchos (nightingale) > sound made by

jug, jug1523

tereu1576

1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. P^v And for hir foremost note, Tereu Tereu, doth sing.

1598 R. Barnfield Ode in Encomion Lady Pecunia sig. E3 The Nightingale..(poore Bird)..sung the dolefulst Ditty, That to heare it was great Pitty. Fie, fie, fie; now woald she cry Teru Teru, by and by.

1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. F4^v Away she flew, Crying Tereu!

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 124 The Nightingales began to jug and warble their Tereus and Ity's again.

1923 T. S. Eliot Waste Land iii. 15 Twit twit twit Jug jug jug jug jug So rudely forc'd. Tereu.

1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 125 Hear how it whistles ‘jug, puff-puff, tereu’ Better than any nightingale could do.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	tereu
释义	tereun. /tiːˈruː/ Forms: 1500s teru, 1500s–1600s 1900s– tereu. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Tēreu. Etymology: < classical Latin Tēreu, vocative of Tēreus (ancient Greek Τηρεύς), name in mythology of the husband of Philomela's sister Procne, and father of Itys; all, according to Ovid Metamorphoses 6. 8, transformed to birds. The nightingale's song was interpreted as a piteous cry to Tereus. Chiefly poetic. A feigned note of the nightingale. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Luscinia > luscinia megarhynchos (nightingale) > sound made by jug, jug1523 tereu1576 1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. P^v And for hir foremost note, Tereu Tereu, doth sing. 1598 R. Barnfield Ode in Encomion Lady Pecunia sig. E3 The Nightingale..(poore Bird)..sung the dolefulst Ditty, That to heare it was great Pitty. Fie, fie, fie; now woald she cry Teru Teru, by and by. 1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. F4^v Away she flew, Crying Tereu! 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 124 The Nightingales began to jug and warble their Tereus and Ity's again. 1923 T. S. Eliot Waste Land iii. 15 Twit twit twit Jug jug jug jug jug So rudely forc'd. Tereu. 1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 125 Hear how it whistles ‘jug, puff-puff, tereu’ Better than any nightingale could do. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1576
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