Show the name doris the name doris is ot of greek origin two authorities agree on it but when it comes to the meaning of the name these same authorities disagree widely and strangely for one says that doris means a sacrificial rifi cial knife and the other that it means of the sea no reason la 13 given for the first meaning the second is explained by the taft that in greek mythology doris was a sea goddess daughter of oceanus and thetis and mother of the sea nymphs doris is also theriane ther the name iame of a small mountainous district of greece and of a genus of mollusks so it may likewise be a greek word for a sacrificial knife but as a name it would seem that of the sea is the more logical meaning |