τιτίς
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editOf onomatopoeic origin. Compare τιττυβίζω (tittubízō, “to cry (of the partridge)”), τέττῑξ (téttīx, “cicada”) and τυτώ (tutṓ, “owl”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tiː.tís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tiˈtis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tiˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tiˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈtis/
Noun
editτῑτῐ́ς • (tītís) f (genitive τῑτῐ́δος); third declension
- small chirping bird
- (figuratively) pudendum muliebre
- full-sized bathtub
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Further reading
edit- “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