τιτίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare τιττυβίζω (tittubízō, “to cry (of the partridge)”), τέττῑξ (téttīx, “cicada”) and τυτώ (tutṓ, “owl”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tiː.tís/ → /tiˈtis/ → /tiˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tiː.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tiˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈtis/

Noun

τῑτῐ́ς • (tītís) f (genitive τῑτῐ́δος); third declension

1. small chirping bird
2. (figuratively) pudendum muliebre
3. full-sized bathtub

Declension

Third declension of ἡ τῑτῐ́ς; τῆς τῑτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῑτῐ́ς hē tītís	τὼ τῑτῐ́δε tṑ tītíde	αἱ τῑτῐ́δες hai tītídes
Genitive	τῆς τῑτῐ́δος tês tītídos	τοῖν τῑτῐ́δοιν toîn tītídoin	τῶν τῑτῐ́δων tôn tītídōn
Dative	τῇ τῑτῐ́δῐ têi tītídi	τοῖν τῑτῐ́δοιν toîn tītídoin	ταῖς τῑτῐ́σῐ / τῑτῐ́σῐν taîs tītísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν τῑτῐ́δᾰ tḕn tītída	τὼ τῑτῐ́δε tṑ tītíde	τᾱ̀ς τῑτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s tītídas
Vocative	τῑτῐ́ς tītís	τῑτῐ́δε tītíde	τῑτῐ́δες tītídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “τιτίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τιτίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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