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τιτθός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιτθός τιτθοῦ

Structure: τιτθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Qa/w

Sense

  1. a teat, nipple

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τιτθός τιτθώ τιτθοί
Genitive τιτθοῦ τιτθοῖν τιτθῶν
Dative τιτθῷ τιτθοῖν τιτθοῖς
Accusative τιτθόν τιτθώ τιτθούς
Vocative τιτθέ τιτθώ τιτθοί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ νὴ Δία τιτθούσ γ’ ὥσπερ ἡμεῖσ οὐκ ἔχει. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode 1:22)
  • ̓ λέγοντοσ δέ τινοσ τῷ Κορύδῳ ὡσ τῆσ αὑτοῦ γυναικὸσ ἐνίοτε καὶ τὸν τράχηλον καὶ τοὺσ τιτθοὺσ καὶ τὸν ὀμφαλὸν φιλεῖ ’ πονηρὸν ἔφη, ’ τοῦτ’ ἤδη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 47 2:1)
  • Γυναιξὶν ὁκόσῃσιν ἐσ τοὺσ τιτθοὺσ αἷμα συστρέφεται, μανίην σημαίνει. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 72.40)
  • Γυναικὶ τὰ καταμήνια ἢν βούλῃ ἐπισχεῖν, σικύην ὡσ μεγίστην πρὸσ τοὺσ τιτθοὺσ πρόσβαλλε. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 72.50)
  • τῶν δὲ γυναικῶν τῶν εὐπόρων τινῶν μὲν καρκίνοισ σιδηροῖσ τὰ σφυρὰ πιέζων συνέτεινε, τινῶν δὲ τοὺσ τιτθοὺσ ἀπέτεμνεν, ταῖσ δ’ ἐγκύοισ πλίνθουσ ἐπὶ τὴν ὀσφῦν ἐπιτιθεὶσ τὸ ἔμβρυον ἀπὸ τοῦ βάρουσ ἐξέθλιβεν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 71 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a teat

    • θηλή (the part of the breast which gives suck, the teat, nipple)

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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