THEODORIC Gender: Masculine Usage: Ancient Germanic Pronounced: the-AHD-o-rik   [key] From the Gothic name Thiudreiks meaning "ruler of the people", derived from the Germanic elements þeud "people" and ric "power, ruler". Theodoric the Great was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths who eventually became the ruler of Italy.

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