theresa
/tɚˈisə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Teresa.
Example Sentences
- ""Theresa!" exclaimed the stranger, "is your name Theresa?" asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance. "Is this name so frightful to you?" enquired the recluse. "Frightful!" rejoined the stranger, "O, no, I venerate it, like the name of a saint. I had once an unknown friend, whose name was Theresa."
- ""Theresa,", he said. "I never cared for that name." Justine nodded, chewing. "I don't like difficult names. I don't like foreignness." "Perhaps they're Catholic," Justine said."
- "“What this work shows is that masculinity is not just an ideology that men strive to achieve. It’s something we value as a culture,” said lead author Theresa Vescio, a professor of psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University."
Etymology
First used in Spain, supposedly derived from Latin Thēra, from Ancient Greek Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā), name of a city in Santorini, Greece.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Thēra, Θήρᾱ