tethea

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τήθεον (tḗtheon), a variant of τήθυον (tḗthuon, “ascidia, sea-squirt”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.tʰe.a/, [ˈt̪eːt̪ʰeä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.te.a/, [ˈt̪ɛːt̪eä]

Noun

tēthea n pl (genitive tētheōrum); second declension

1. (plural only) A kind of sponge

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

	plural
nominative	tēthea
genitive	tētheōrum
dative	tētheīs
accusative	tēthea
ablative	tētheīs
vocative	tēthea

References

• “tethea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tethea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.