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

 

• IPA^(key): /tytʰ.tʰós/ → /tytˈθos/ → /titˈθos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tytʰ.tʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tytˈtʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tytˈθos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tytˈθos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /titˈθos/

Adjective

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

1. (Epic) small, little, young

   Synonyms: βαιός (baiós), ἠβαιός (ēbaiós), μῑκρός (mīkrós)

Declension

Second declension of τῠτθός; τῠτθόν (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		τῠτθός tutthós	τῠτθόν tutthón		τῠτθώ tutthṓ	τῠτθώ tutthṓ		τῠτθοί tutthoí	τῠτθᾰ́ tutthá
Genitive		τῠτθοῦ tutthoû	τῠτθοῦ tutthoû		τῠτθοῖν tutthoîn	τῠτθοῖν tutthoîn		τῠτθῶν tutthôn	τῠτθῶν tutthôn
Dative		τῠτθῷ tutthôi	τῠτθῷ tutthôi		τῠτθοῖν tutthoîn	τῠτθοῖν tutthoîn		τῠτθοῖς tutthoîs	τῠτθοῖς tutthoîs
Accusative		τῠτθόν tutthón	τῠτθόν tutthón		τῠτθώ tutthṓ	τῠτθώ tutthṓ		τῠτθούς tutthoús	τῠτθᾰ́ tutthá
Vocative		τῠτθέ tutthé	τῠτθόν tutthón		τῠτθώ tutthṓ	τῠτθώ tutthṓ		τῠτθοί tutthoí	τῠτθᾰ́ tutthá
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τυτθόν (tutthón)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • babe idem, page 57.
  • child idem, page 129.
  • infant idem, page 437.
  • little idem, page 495.
  • tiny idem, page 877.
  • young idem, page 997.
• 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