τιθήνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare θῆλυς (thêlus, “female”), θηλή (thēlḗ, “teat”), θεῖος (theîos, “uncle”), τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”) and τίτθη (títthē, “wet nurse”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ti.tʰɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /tiˈθi.ni/ → /tiˈθi.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ti.tʰɛ̌ː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tiˈtʰe̝.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈθi.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈθi.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈθi.ni/

Noun

τῐθήνη • (tithḗnē) f (genitive τῐθήνης); first declension

1. nurse, wet nurse

   Synonyms: τίτθη (títthē), τροφός (trophós)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τῐθήνη; τῆς τῐθήνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῐθήνη hē tithḗnē	τὼ τῐθήνᾱ tṑ tithḗnā	αἱ τῐθῆναι hai tithênai
Genitive	τῆς τῐθήνης tês tithḗnēs	τοῖν τῐθήναιν toîn tithḗnain	τῶν τῐθηνῶν tôn tithēnôn
Dative	τῇ τῐθήνῃ têi tithḗnēi	τοῖν τῐθήναιν toîn tithḗnain	ταῖς τῐθήναις taîs tithḗnais
Accusative	τὴν τῐθήνην tḕn tithḗnēn	τὼ τῐθήνᾱ tṑ tithḗnā	τᾱ̀ς τῐθήνᾱς tā̀s tithḗnās
Vocative	τῐθήνη tithḗnē	τῐθήνᾱ tithḗnā	τῐθῆναι tithênai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τιθηνέω (tithēnéō)
• τιθήνημα (tithḗnēma)
• τιθήνησις (tithḗnēsis)
• τιθηνητήρ (tithēnētḗr)
• τιθηνητήριος (tithēnētḗrios)
• τιθηνία (tithēnía)
• τιθηνόκομον (tithēnókomon)
• τιθηνός (tithēnós)

 

References

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