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
    
- (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 • (títthē) f (genitive τῐ́τθης); first declension
Inflection
    
| 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  | ||||||||||
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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
 
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