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tetta

Italian edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

Noun edit

tetta f (plural tette)

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

See also edit

Mayo edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïn-ta.

Noun edit

tetta (plural téttam)

  1. stone, rock

References edit

  • Collard, Howard, Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎[1] (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 83, 189

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

tetta

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