tetta

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Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin titta, titia, from Frankish *titta, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), from Proto-Indo-European *tata- (“father; parent; nipple”).

Compare also French tette, Spanish and Portuguese teta, Romanian țâță, English teat. The word is found in many European languages and may simply be ultimately an expressive formation based on infantile language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtet.ta/
  • Rhymes: -etta
  • Hyphenation: tét‧ta

Noun

tetta f (plural tette)

  1. (informal, vulgar) boob, booby, tit, jug (slang expression for breast)
    Synonyms: poppa, mammella

See also

Mayo

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïn-ta.

Noun

tetta (plural téttam)

  1. stone, rock

References

  • Collard, Howard, Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 83, 189

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

tetta

  1. inflection of tette:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle
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