τίτθη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare τιτθός (titthós, “breast”), θῆλυς (thêlus, “female”), θηλή (thēlḗ, “teat”) and τιθήνη (tithḗnē, “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
Inflection
| 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
- τιτθεία (tittheía)
- τιτθεύω (tittheúō)
- τιτθίζω (titthízō)
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