teat

See also: Teat and teát

English

Etymology

From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *titta, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin.

It heavily displaced Old English titt, a cognate of the same origin, which survives as tit, but in more vulgar use. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːt/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

teat (plural teats)

1. (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107:

     Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.

   Synonyms: tit (now vulgar), pap, nipple, dug

2. Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
3. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

Quotations

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ezekiel 23:3:

  And they committed whordomes in Egypt, they committed whordomes in their youth: there were their brests pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginitie.

Translations

projection of mammary gland

• Arabic: حَلَمَة‎ f (ḥalama), خِلْف‎ m (ḵilf)
• Aromanian: tsãtsã f
• Bulgarian: цицка f (cicka), зърно на гърдата (zǎrno na gǎrdata)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奶頭 (zh), 奶头 (zh) (nǎitóu), 乳頭 (zh), 乳头 (zh) (rǔtóu)

• Czech: struk (cs) m, bradavka f
• Danish: pat c, brystvorte c
• Dutch: speen (nl) m or f, tepel (nl) m
• Esperanto: cico, mampinto (eo)
• Finnish: nänni (fi)
• French: trayon (fr) m
• German: Brustwarze (de) f
• Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)

  Ancient: θηλή f (thēlḗ)

• Hittite: 𒋼𒂊𒋫𒀭 (te-e-ta-an)
• Hungarian: mellbimbó (hu)
• Ido: mameto (io)
• Italian: tettarella, capezzolo (it) m
• Japanese: 乳首 (ちくび, chikubi, ちちくび, chichikubi), 乳頭 (ja) (にゅうとう, nyūtō), ニップル (nippuru)

• Latin: papilla f
• Malay: puting (ms)
• Manchu: ᡨᡠᠮᡳᡥᠠ (tumiha)
• Maori: ū, titi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: patte (no) m, brystvorte m or f, sugevorte m or f, spene m

  Nynorsk: patte m or f, brystvorte f, sugevorte f, spene m

• Polish: sutek (pl) m, sutka (pl) f, brodawka sutkowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: mamilo (pt) m, bico do peito (pt) m, mamá m
• Romanian: sfârc (ro), țâță (ro)
• Russian: сосо́к (ru) m (sosók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: си̏са f

  Roman: sȉsa (sh) f

• Spanish: pezón (es) m
• Swedish: bröstvårta (sv) c
• Turkish: meme başı (tr)
• Volapük: blötatät (vo)

feeding bottle top

• Bulgarian: цицка f (cicka)
• Burmese: နို့ပုံ (my) (nui.pum), နို့သီးခေါင်း (my) (nui.si:hkaung:)
• Catalan: tetina (ca) f
• Dutch: speen (nl) m
• Esperanto: cicumo (eo)
• Finnish: tutti (fi)
• French: tétine (fr) f
• German: Sauger m
• Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)
• Italian: tettarella f
• Japanese: おしゃぶり (oshaburi)
• Maori: titi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smokk (no) m

  Nynorsk: smokk m

• Polish: smoczek (pl)
• Portuguese: chupeta (pt) f, bico (pt) m
• Romanian: tetină (ro) f
• Russian: со́ска (ru) f (sóska)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цуцла f

  Roman: cucla (sh) f

• Spanish: chupete (es) m
• Swedish: tuta (sv) c
• Turkish: biberon emziği

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Erzya: ^{(please verify)} поте (pote)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} capezzolo (it) m

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 젖꼭지 (ko) (jeotkkokji)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} หัวนม (th) (hua nom) (literally, head-milk)

See also

• breast, mammary gland, tit, udder

Anagrams

• Etta, Tate, Teta, aett, tate