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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

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)
  • "Ἕκτωρ γὰρ θνητόσ τε γυναῖκά τε θήσατο μαζόν, διὰ τὸ ἐντίθεσθαι τὰσ θηλὰσ εἰσ τὰ στόματα τὰ βρέφη, καὶ ὁ τιτθὸσ ἐνθένδε διὰ τὸ ἐντίθεσθαι τὰσ θηλάσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 54 1:20)
  • ̓ 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)
  • εἴ σε Πόθοι στέργουσι, Φιλόκλεεσ, ἥ τε μυρόπνουσ πειθώ, καὶ κάλλευσ ἀνθολόγοι Χάριτεσ, ἀγκὰσ ἔχοισ Διόδωρον, ὁ δὲ γλυκὺσ ἀντίοσ ᾄδοι Δωρόθεοσ, κείσθω δ’ εἰσ γόνυ Καλλικράτησ, ἰαίνοι δὲ Δίων τόδ’ ἐύστοχον ἐν χερὶ τείνων σὸν κέρασ, Οὐλιάδησ δ’ αὐτὸ περισκυθίσαι, δοίη δ’ ἡδὺ φίλημα Φίλων, Θήρων δὲ λαλήσαι, θλίβοισ δ’ Εὐδήμου τιτθὸν ὑπὸ χλαμύδι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 951)
  • καὶ οὕτωσ ἤδη συνειθισμένον ἦν, ὥστε πολλάκισ ἡ γυνὴ ἀπῄει κάτω καθευδήσουσα ὡσ τὸ παιδίον, ἵνα τὸν τιτθὸν αὐτῷ διδῷ καὶ μὴ βοᾷ. (Lysias, Speeches, 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a teat

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

Related

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

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