τίτθη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare τιτθός (titthós, “breast”), θῆλυς (thêlus, “female”), θηλή (thēlḗ, “teat”), θεῖος (theîos, “uncle”), τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”) and τιθήνη (tithḗnē, “wet nurse”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /títʰ.tʰɛː/ → /ˈtit.θi/ → /ˈtit.θi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /títʰ.tʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtit.tʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtit.θi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtit.θi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtit.θi/

Noun

τῐ́τθη • (títthē) f (genitive τῐ́τθης); first declension

1. nurse, wet nurse

   Synonyms: τιθήνη (tithḗnē), τροφός (trophós)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τῐ́τθη; τῆς τῐ́τθης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῐ́τθη hē títthē	τὼ τῐ́τθᾱ tṑ títthā	αἱ τῐ́τθαι hai títthai
Genitive	τῆς τῐ́τθης tês títthēs	τοῖν τῐ́τθαιν toîn títthain	τῶν τῐτθῶν tôn titthôn
Dative	τῇ τῐ́τθῃ têi títthēi	τοῖν τῐ́τθαιν toîn títthain	ταῖς τῐ́τθαις taîs títthais
Accusative	τὴν τῐ́τθην tḕn títthēn	τὼ τῐ́τθᾱ tṑ títthā	τᾱ̀ς τῐ́τθᾱς tā̀s títthās
Vocative	τῐ́τθη títthē	τῐ́τθᾱ títthā	τῐ́τθαι títthai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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