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

 

• IPA^(key): /titʰ.tʰós/ → /titˈθos/ → /titˈθos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /titʰ.tʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /titˈtʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /titˈθos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /titˈθos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /titˈθos/

Noun

τῐτθός • (tĭtthós) m (genitive τῐτθοῦ); second declension

1. (anatomy) breast, especially a woman's breast

   Synonym: μᾰστός (măstós)

2. (in the plural) animal's teat
3. nurser, rearer

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τῐτθός; τοῦ τῐτθοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τῐτθός ho tĭtthós	τὼ τῐτθώ tṑ tĭtthṓ	οἱ τῐτθοί hoi tĭtthoí
Genitive	τοῦ τῐτθοῦ toû tĭtthoû	τοῖν τῐτθοῖν toîn tĭtthoîn	τῶν τῐτθῶν tôn tĭtthôn
Dative	τῷ τῐτθῷ tôi tĭtthôi	τοῖν τῐτθοῖν toîn tĭtthoîn	τοῖς τῐτθοῖς toîs tĭtthoîs
Accusative	τὸν τῐτθόν tòn tĭtthón	τὼ τῐτθώ tṑ tĭtthṓ	τοὺς τῐτθούς toùs tĭtthoús
Vocative	τῐτθέ tĭtthé	τῐτθώ tĭtthṓ	τῐτθοί tĭtthoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τῐτθῐ́δῐον (tĭtthĭ́dĭon)
• τῐτθῐ́ον (tĭtthĭ́on)
• τῐτθολᾰβέω (tĭttholăbéō)

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