τίτθη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare τῐτθός (tĭtthós, “breast”), θῆλῠς (thêlŭs, “female”), θηλή (thēlḗ, “teat”) and τῐθήνη (tĭthḗnē, “wet nurse”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /títʰ.tʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtit.tʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtit.θi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtit.θi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtit.θi/
Noun
τῐ́τθη • (tĭ́tthē) f (genitive τῐ́τθης); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ τῐ́τθη hē tĭ́tthē |
τὼ τῐ́τθᾱ tṑ tĭ́tthā |
αἱ τῐ́τθαι hai tĭ́tthai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς τῐ́τθης tês tĭ́tthēs |
τοῖν τῐ́τθαιν toîn tĭ́tthain |
τῶν τῐτθῶν tôn tĭtthôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ τῐ́τθῃ tēî tĭ́tthēi |
τοῖν τῐ́τθαιν toîn tĭ́tthain |
ταῖς τῐ́τθαις taîs tĭ́tthais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν τῐ́τθην tḕn tĭ́tthēn |
τὼ τῐ́τθᾱ tṑ tĭ́tthā |
τᾱ̀ς τῐ́τθᾱς tā̀s tĭ́tthās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τῐ́τθη tĭ́tthē |
τῐ́τθᾱ tĭ́tthā |
τῐ́τθαι tĭ́tthai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τῐτθείᾱ (tĭttheíā)
- τῐτθεύειν (tĭttheúein)
- τῐτθευτῐκός (tĭttheutĭkós)
- τῐτθεύτρῐᾰ (tĭttheútrĭă)
- τῐτθεύω (tĭttheúō)
- τῐτθῐ́ζω (tĭtthĭ́zō)
- τῐτθῐσμός (tĭtthĭsmós)
Related terms
- ᾰ̓πότῐτθος (ăpótĭtthos)
- ἐπῐστηθῐ́δῐος (epĭstēthĭ́dĭos)
- ἐπιτίτθιος (epitítthios)
- ὁμότῐτθος (homótĭtthos)
- ὀρθοτῐ́τθῐος (orthotĭ́tthĭos)
- τῐτθῐ́δῐον (tĭtthĭ́dĭon)
- τῐτθῐ́ον (tĭtthĭ́on)
- τῐτθολᾰβέω (tĭttholăbéō)
- τῐτθολᾰβῶ (tĭttholăbô)
- τῐτθός (tĭtthós)
- τῐττῐ́ο (tĭttĭ́o)
- τῐττῐ́ον (tĭttĭ́on)
- ῠ̔ποτῐ́θῐος (hŭpotĭ́thĭos)
- ῠ̔ποτῐτθῐ́δῐος (hŭpotĭtthĭ́dĭos)
- ῠ̔ποτῐτθῐκόν (hŭpotĭtthĭkón)
- ῠ̔ποτῐ́τθῐος (hŭpotĭ́tthĭos)
- ῠ̔πότῐτθος (hŭpótĭtthos)
Further reading
- “τίτθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τίτθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τίτθη 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