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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A nursery word with hypocoristic gemination and aspiration. With a similar form and meaning, compare Swedish tutta (“little girl”). See also τυννός (tunnós, “small, inferior”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tytʰ.tʰós/ → /tytˈθos/ → /titˈθos/
Adjective
τῠτθός • (tutthós) m or f (neuter τῠτθόν); second declension
- (Epic) small, little, young
- Synonyms: βαιός (baiós), ἠβαιός (ēbaiós), μῑκρός (mīkrós)
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Further reading
- “τυτθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τυτθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τυτθός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τυτθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τυτθός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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