Keres

See also: keres, kérés, and kereş

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κῆρες (Kêres, literally “Death Spirits, Doom, Heart”).

Proper noun

Keres

(Greek mythology) The goddesses of death, specifically cruel and violent deaths, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease. They numbered in the thousands and were the daughters of Nyx and Erebus, and the sisters of Thanatos and Hypnos. Their Roman counterparts were the Letum or the Tenebrae.

Translations

Greek goddesses of violent deaths

Anagrams

esker, krees, reeks, reesk, skeer

Estonian

Proper noun

Keres

A surname.

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