τυτώ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, rendering the cry of the owl. See also Latin tutubō (“to cry (of an owl)”) and Lithuanian tutúoti (“first flute, pipe”). Similarly in Greek τοῦτις (toûtis, “blackbird”) and ταύτασος (taútasos, “kind of bird”).

Pronunciation

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tyˈto/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tyˈto/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tyˈto/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈto/

Noun

τυτώ • (tutṓ) f (genitive τυτοῦς); third declension

kind of owl

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ τυτώ; τῆς τυτοῦς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ τυτώ hē tutṓ
Genitive	τῆς τυτοῦς tês tutoûs
Dative	τῇ τυτοῖ têi tutoî
Accusative	τὴν τυτώ tḕn tutṓ
Vocative	τυτοῖ tutoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: τυτώ (tytó)
→ Translingual: Tyto

References

τυτώ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
τυτώ 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