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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/
Noun
τῐ́τθη • (títthē) f (genitive τῐ́τθης); first declension
- nurse, wet nurse
- Synonyms: τιθήνη (tithḗnē), τροφός (trophós)
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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