τιτθός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare τίτθη (títthē, “wet nurse”), θῆλυς (thêlus, “female”), θηλή (thēlḗ, “teat”), θεῖος (theîos, “uncle”), τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”) and τιθήνη (tithḗnē, “wet nurse”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /titʰ.tʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /titˈtʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /titˈθos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /titˈθos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /titˈθos/
Noun
τῐτθός • (titthós) m (genitive τῐτθοῦ); second declension
- (anatomy) breast, especially a woman's breast
- Synonym: μᾰστός (mastós)
- (in the plural) animal's teat
- nurser, rearer
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τῐτθός; τοῦ τῐτθοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τῐτθός ho titthós | τὼ τῐτθώ tṑ titthṓ | οἱ τῐτθοί hoi titthoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τῐτθοῦ toû titthoû | τοῖν τῐτθοῖν toîn titthoîn | τῶν τῐτθῶν tôn titthôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τῐτθῷ tôi titthôi | τῐτθοῖν titthoîn | τοῖς τῐτθοῖς toîs titthoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τῐτθόν tòn titthón | τῐτθώ titthṓ | τοὺς τῐτθούς toùs titthoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῐτθέ titthé | τῐτθώ titthṓ | τῐτθοί titthoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τῐτθῐ́δῐον (titthídion)
- τῐτθῐ́ον (titthíon)
- τῐτθολᾰβέω (tittholabéō)
Further reading
- τιτθός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τιτθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN