τυτθός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A nursery word with hypocoristic gemination and aspiration. With a similar form and meaning, compare Swedish tutta (little girl). See also τυννός (tunnós, small, inferior).

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

τῠτθός • (tutthós) m or f (neuter τῠτθόν); second declension

  1. (Epic) small, little, young
    Synonyms: βαιός (baiós), ἠβαιός (ēbaiós), μῑκρός (mīkrós)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • τυτθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • τυτθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • τυτθός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • τυτθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • τυτθός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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
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