Terri

  • [ TER-ee ]
  • English
Either a strictly feminine form of TERRY (1) or a diminutive of THERESA.

TERRY (1)   male & female   English
From an English surname which was derived from the medieval name Thierry, a Norman French form of THEODORIC.
THEODORIC   male   History
From a Germanic name meaning "ruler of the people", derived from the elements theud "people" and ric "power, ruler". It was notably borne by Theodoric the Great, a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths who eventually became the ruler of Italy. By Theodoric's time the Ostrogoths were partially Romanized and his name was regularly recorded as Theodoricus. The Gothic original may have been Þiudreiks.
THERESA   female   English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
From the Spanish and Portuguese name Teresa. It was first recorded as Therasia, being borne by the Spanish wife of Saint Paulinus of Nola in the 4th century. The meaning is uncertain, but it could be derived from Greek θερος (theros) "summer", from Greek θεριζω (therizo) "to harvest", or from the name of the Greek island of Therasia (the western island of Santorini).

The name was mainly confined to Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages. After the 16th century it was spread to other parts of the Christian world, due to the fame of the Spanish nun and reformer Saint Teresa of Ávila. Another famous bearer was the Austrian Habsburg queen Maria Theresa (1717-1780), who inherited the domains of her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, beginning the War of the Austrian Succession.
FULL FORMS
ENGLISH: Teresa, Theresa, Therese
EQUIVALENTS
BASQUE: Terese
BULGARIAN: Tereza
CROATIAN: Tena, Terezija
CZECH: Tereza, Terezie
DANISH: Teresa, Terese, Theresa, Therese
DUTCH: Tess, Thera, Theresia, Trees
ENGLISH: Teri, Terrie, Terry, Tess, Tessa, Tessie, Tracee, Tracey, Traci, Tracie, Tracy
FINNISH: Teresa
FRENCH: Thérèse
GERMAN: Teresa, Theresa, Therese, Theresia
HUNGARIAN: Teca, Teréz, Terézia
IRISH: Toiréasa, Treasa
ITALIAN: Teresa
LATE ROMAN: Therasia
LIMBURGISH: Trees
NORWEGIAN: Teresa, Terese, Theresa, Therese
POLISH: Teresa
PORTUGUESE (BRAZILIAN): Tereza, Terezinha
PORTUGUESE: Teresa, Teresinha
ROMANIAN: Tereza
SLOVAK: Terézia
SLOVENE: Terezija
SPANISH: Tere, Teresa, Teresita
SWEDISH: Teresa, Terese, Teresia, Tessan, Theresa, Therese, Theresia
MASCULINE FORMS
ENGLISH (BRITISH): Tel
ENGLISH: Terry
OTHER FORMS
AFRICAN AMERICAN: Dedrick
ANCIENT CELTIC: Teutorigos
ANCIENT GERMANIC: Theoderich, Theodoricus, Theudoricus, Theutrich, Þiudreiks
DUTCH: Dick, Diede, Diederick, Diederik, Dirk, Tiede, Ties, Tijmen
ENGLISH: Dederick, Derek, Derick, Derrick, Deryck, Dirk
FRENCH: Thierry
FRISIAN: Tiede
GERMAN: Diederich, Dierk, Dietrich, Dirk, Thilo, Till, Tillo, Tilo
HISTORY: Theodoric
MEDIEVAL GERMAN: Tielo
VARIOUS: Thelonius
WELSH: Tudor, Tudur