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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare θῆλυς (thêlus, “female”), θηλή (thēlḗ, “teat”), θεῖος (theîos, “uncle”), τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”) and τίτθη (títthē, “wet nurse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.tʰɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /tiˈθi.ni/ → /tiˈθi.ni/
Noun
τῐθήνη • (tithḗnē) f (genitive τῐθήνης); first declension
- nurse, wet nurse
- Synonyms: τίτθη (títthē), τροφός (trophós)
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References
- “τιθήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τιθήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τιθήνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τιθήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τιθήνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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