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 • (titthós) m (genitive τῐτθοῦ); second declension

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

   Synonym: μᾰστός (mastós)

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 titthós	τὼ τῐτθώ tṑ titthṓ	οἱ τῐτθοί hoi titthoí
Genitive	τοῦ τῐτθοῦ toû titthoû	τοῖν τῐτθοῖν toîn titthoîn	τῶν τῐτθῶν tôn titthôn
Dative	τῷ τῐτθῷ tôi titthôi	τοῖν τῐτθοῖν toîn titthoîn	τοῖς τῐτθοῖς toîs titthoîs
Accusative	τὸν τῐτθόν tòn titthón	τὼ τῐτθώ tṑ titthṓ	τοὺς τῐτθούς toùs titthoús
Vocative	τῐτθέ titthé	τῐτθώ titthṓ	τῐτθοί titthoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τῐτθολᾰβέω (tittholabéō)
• τῐτθῐ́δῐον (titthídion)
• τῐτθῐ́ον (titthíon)

 

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