tetta
Italian
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /ˈtet.ta/
- Rhymes: -etta
- Hyphenation: tét‧ta
Noun
tetta f (plural tette)
See also
Mayo
Etymology
From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïn-ta.
References
- Collard, Howard, Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6) (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 83, 189
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Alternative forms
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